Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.Søren Kierkegaard
“I want to live another thousand years.”
Poet · 1922 – 1949
Chairil Anwar was an Indonesian poet whose fierce, modern verse transformed Indonesian literature before his death at twenty-six. His poem 'Aku' ('I'), ending with the wish to live another thousand years, is the country's most famous poem.
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