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“Loneliness feels like prison.”

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Nazım Hikmet (January 15, 1902 - June 3, 1963) was a prominent Turkish poet. His poetry deeply reflected social realities and focused on the fate of the working class, hailed as one of the founders of modern Turkish poetry. more

“Welcome baby it's your turn to live they're laying for you chicken pox whooping cough smallpox malaria TB heart disease cancer and so on unemployment hunger and so on train wrecks bus accidents plane crashes on-the-job injuries earthquakes floods droughts and so on heartbreak alcoholism and so on nightsticks prisons doors and so on they're laying for you the atom bomb and so on welcome baby it's your turn to live they're laying for you socialism communism and so on.”

“Looking at this insolent earth, you hear the first battle cry of our species- trap it under a rock and together, screaming, attack and destroy it, as if killing a mammoth.”

Ifs Firsts Earth Together Rocks Cry Battle Species Killing Traps Insolent Battle Cry

Author:Naz?m Hikmet

“At eighteen the heart shoots like a pebble from a slingshot and the head doesn't sit on the shoulder.”

Heart Shoulders Eighteen Pebbles Slingshots

Author:Naz?m Hikmet

“At eighteen you sleep without memories.”

Memories Sleep Eighteen

Author:Naz?m Hikmet

“At eighteen you don't think about memories, you tell them.”

Thinking Memories Eighteen

Author:Naz?m Hikmet

“Suzuki's works on Zen Buddhism are among the best contributions to the knowledge of living Buddhism... We cannot be sufficiently grateful to the author, first for the fact of his having brought Zen closer to Western understanding, and secondly for the manner in which he has achieved this task.”

Firsts Facts Understanding Buddhism Tasks Grateful Western Contribution Zen Buddhism

Book:An Introduction to Zen Buddhism

Source: An Introduction to Zen Buddhism

“Though perhaps less universally known than such figures as Einstein or Gandhi (who became symbols of our time) Daisetz Suzuki was no less remarkable a man than these. And though his work may not have had such resounding and public effect, he contributed no little to the spiritual and intellectual revolution of our time.”

Men May Littles Spiritual Known Effects Figures Revolution Intellectual Symbols Our Time Remarkable

Author:D.T. Suzuki

“Prophecy is rash, but it may be that the publication of D.T. Suzuki's first Essays in Zen Buddhism in 1927 will seem to future generations as great an intellectual event as William of Moerbeke's Latin translations of Aristotle in the thirteenth century or Marsiglio Ficino's of Plato in the fifteenth.”

Firsts May Seems Generations Century Events Buddhism Intellectual Latin Prophecy Plato Essays Translations Future Generation Publication Zen Buddhism

Author:D.T. Suzuki

“We praise Thee, Lord, of all the earth, for love and joy, for light and mirth, for every charm of sense and right, and blessings boundless as Thy might.... But most we praise the love that gave thine own dear Son to seek and save, for joy all other joys excelling, for purest light and life indwelling.”

Light Might Earth Joy Jesus Lord Son Blessing Praise Dear Thee Charm Boundless Mirth

Author:Cecil Frances Alexander

“Christian children all must be mild, obedient, good as He.”

Children Christian Obedient

Book:Hymns for little children

Source: Hymns for little children

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