Polyglot Quotes

“My brain is the planet’s largest organic manufacturing plant of multiculturalism.”

Source: Sonnets From The Mountaintop

Diversity Tolerance Inclusion Multiculturalism Interfaith Cultural Integration Polyglot Cultural Studies Naskar Sonnets Multicultural Literature

Book:With Love From A Blue Rock

Source: With Love From A Blue Rock

“When The Pillar Gets Weary (Dervish Sonnet 2776) I don't utter a single word that I wouldn't want to become part of the canon, but person can't live on discipline alone, so, having no lover to take my armor off for, I found a different way to vent my vulnerability - in the mainstream work I'm a pillar of strength, while turkish is quite literally my love language - english is the language where my brain feels at home, turkish is the language where my heart finds rest - none my mothertongue, yet both are my first language, with spanish as my occasional substitute for english. English is not my mothertongue, english is my brother tongue - spanish is not my mothertongue, spanish is my cousin tongue - turkish is not my mothertongue, turkish is my lover tongue. My territory is planet earth - humanity, my civilization. Figure what I didn't mention, you'll learn the law of assimilation.”

Diversity Sufism Multiculturalism Cultural Integration Insanlık şIiri Polyglot Sufi Poet Dervish Linguistic Diversity Multicultural Literature

Book:Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

Source: Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“I opened my eyes and couldn't find a single precedent of post-national, post-religion, post-lingual, post-cultural existence, so I became the precedent.”

Diversity Tolerance Nationalism Integration Multiculturalism Interfaith Inclusive Multicultural Polyglot Naskarian

“Your dictionaries are too small for my voice, your disciplines are too primitive for my existence - not with intellect, not with faith - to read me you have to think plurally and feel planetary.”

Source: Sonnets From The Mountaintop

Diversity Sufism Nonduality Integration Advaita Multiculturalism Interfaith Pluralism Polyglot Plurality

“Not with intellect, not with faith - to read me you have to think plurally and feel planetary.”

Source: Sonnets From The Mountaintop

Diversity Sufism Nonduality Integration Advaita Multiculturalism Interfaith Pluralism Polyglot Naskar

“To read me you have to think plurally and feel planetary.”

Source: Sonnets From The Mountaintop

Diversity Sufism Nonduality Integration Advaita Multiculturalism Interfaith Pluralism Polyglot Naskar

“I'm colored, I'm scientist, I'm poet, I'm polyglot - coming from zero money, I won the world with words. Try and get your puny white brains around this existence enigma.”

Source: Sonnets From The Mountaintop

Diversity Inequality Multiculturalism White Supremacy Inclusive White Privilege Racial Profiling Polyglot Poet Scientist Whitewash

“Larger than tribe, larger than time, I am Detonation of The First Multicultural Civilization.”

Source: Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

Civilization Diversity Social Justice Tolerance Humanist Multiculturalism Cultural Integration Inclusive Polyglot Cultural Studies

“You don’t enter a culture, you disappear into it, be annihilated for others, and you come to life.”

Source: Sonnets From The Mountaintop

Diversity Tolerance Inclusion Selfless Multiculturalism Cultural Integration Inclusive Multicultural Polyglot

“My brain is multilingual, my heart is multicultural, my life is multidimensional, I exist for I dissolve in all. You barely speak one language, ramble doctrines from one dead book, can't see beyond the customs of your tribe, yet you say, your truth is the cosmic truth!”

Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

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“My brain is multilingual, my heart is multicultural, my life is multidimensional, I exist for I dissolve in all.”

Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

Diversity Tolerance Oneness Multiculturalism Inclusive Polyglot Multilingualism Poet Scientist Multilingual

“Latin Passion, Turkish Woundlight, Nordic Thunder, Celtic Wonder, Afro Grit, American Ambition, Arabian Adamance, Chinese Ingenuity, Indian Nonduality - like rivers running eager to meet in sea, cultures converged to bring me to life.”

Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

Diversity Oneness Sufism Integration Advaita Multiculturalism Interfaith Polyglot Intercultural

“I never hankered for booze or drugs, you know why - because I'm already drunk, with the most hard-hitting, brain-altering contraband in history - I'm ever consumed with languages and cultures.”

Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

Diversity Tolerance Integration Multiculturalism Inclusive Language Learning Polyglot World Citizen Cultural Studies Intercultural

“Arise, O Atlas (Sonnet 1100) Vakna, Stå upp, o Modige Atlas! Ta världen på din axel, Förkasta allt som är ojust. Awake, Arise, O Atlas Supreme, Take the world on your shoulder. Denounce all roots of hate and hurt, Wielding your humanitarian viking thunder. I don't write for creatures of gutter, I write for those craving for open skies. If you can give up your golden fancies, I'll give you a world beyond the lies. Despierta, levántate, oh loco amante! El mundo entero está a tu cuidado. Give up your aphrodisiac of wild ancestry, Somos humanos cuando nos descubrimos en cada humano.”

Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

Diversity Prejudice Humanitarian Activist Humanidad Multiculturalism Freethinker Justicia Social Polyglot Viking

Book:Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo

Source: Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo

“I’m sorry, I cannot live a single cultural, single lingual, single scriptural existence. I want all the cultures and languages, I want all the scriptures and sciences.”

Diversity Oneness Humanist Integration Advaita Multiculturalism Cultural Integration Multicultural Polyglot Multicultural Poet

Book:Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim

Source: Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim

“Any ape can boast about their culture, I'll die roaring for every culture on earth, except my own.”

Diversity Humanitarian Oneness Inclusion Advaita Multiculturalism Cultural Integration Cultural Diversity Polyglot Intercultural

“I don't need to write in all these languages of the world - those who care, will find a way. I write in more than one language because I want to. I want to leave at least something extremely personal for every culture in the world - that is, for as many cultures as I humanly can. However in the end, the universal spirit of love, light and oneness transcends language and culture, and finds a home in the heart of every conscientious human being - and that's what counts. It's the bridge that counts, not the shape it comes in.”

Source: World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

Diversity Oneness Inclusion Multiculturalism Global Citizen Cultural Integration World Is Family Polyglot Multicultural Poet Polyglot Poetry

Book:Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch

Source: Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch

“When I crossed the hundred books mark, I genuinely thought, "I'm done". But something happened! I don't know why, but my drive towards other languages became stronger than ever. I felt, now is the time to make parts of my legacy more accessible to other languages. I have never relied on anyone in my life for the realization of my legacy, so it was obvious that I was not gonna wait for somebody else to translate my works for me. Besides, when somebody else translates an original literature into another language, it always remains a translation - it can never become an original literature of that language and culture. This I absolutely did not want. Sure, other than Turkish and Spanish, I have difficulty with other languages - that is, I am not at all fluent in them. But the point is, once I feel the language and culture in my veins, I can deliver my ideas in any language I want. And I've been doing exactly that over the years - absorbing as many cultures and languages into my bloodstream as I can that is. If you tear my heart open, you can find every single culture in the world, caringly placed and nurtured. Some call it gift, I call it intention.”

Diversity Oneness Multiculturalism Global Citizen Cultural Integration Multicultural World Is Family Polyglot Multicultural Poet Intercultural Communication

“Once I feel the language and culture in my veins, I can deliver my ideas in any language I want. I can write in any language, because I want to. And no, I don't use some fancy AI tools. In fact, I have an uncompromising principle against the use of AI in literature. Heck, I opted not to use something so trivial as an image containing yours truly with a mace, as cover image of "Bulletproof Backbone", because it collided with the book's anti-weaponry vision - so you can imagine my stance on fraudulent material generated by AI! What I do use, while writing in other languages, is old-fashioned dictionary - online dictionary that is, to fix things like spelling, missing vocabulary and other broken bits - which makes me a broken polyglot. And believe you me, broken polyglots are potent polyglots. I may not be fluent in a lot of languages, but after I am long gone, each of these languages and cultures will have something distinctly personal left by me to call their own. For example, I may not speak fluent German, yet if I write even one page in the German language, it'll forever become an indelible part of the German culture. It'll not be some off-key German translation of an original Naskar, rather it'll be a German literature from the vast Naskarean oeuvre. Sure, I know my limits in each of these languages, that's why I keep my sentence structure simple, which I am not compelled to do in Turkish and Spanish. But more than my limits, I am aware of my limitlessness. And once the being transcends the limits of language, culture, border and tradition, puny apparatus like intellect is bound to follow.”

Source: World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

Diversity Oneness Multiculturalism Global Citizen Cultural Integration Multicultural World Is Family Polyglot Multicultural Poet Intercultural Communication

“Plenticultural (Sonnet 1434) When I get mad, I revert to English, because English is my first language. When I feel romantic, I revert to Turkish, because Turkish is my love language. When I feel passionate, I revert to Spanish, because Spanish is my passion language. When I feel electric, I revert to Telugu, because Telugu is my power language. When nothing works, I revert to Korean, because Korean is my backup language. And you wonder why I never run empty, why the natural spring is ever abundant! Language is the gateway to culture, Culture is the gateway to life. I am no person who speaks many tongues, I am the proof of plenticultural life.”

Source: World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

Diversity Multiculturalism Cultural Integration Multicultural Cultural Diversity Polyglot Languages And Culture Multicultural Poet Multilingualism Multilingual

Book:Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

Source: Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“Language is the gateway to culture, Culture is the gateway to life. I am no person who speaks many tongues, I am the proof of plenticultural life.”

Diversity Multiculturalism Cultural Integration Multicultural Cultural Diversity Polyglot Languages And Culture Multicultural Poet Multilingualism Multilingual

Book:Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

Source: Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“Language is the gateway to culture, culture is the gateway to life.”

Diversity Multiculturalism Cultural Integration Multicultural Cultural Diversity Polyglot Languages And Culture Multilingualism Multilingual Language Studies

Book:Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

Source: Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“Only a multicultural polyglot, who has wiped out borders from heart, rising above both intellect and faith, can sense the immenseness of my work.”

Diversity Humanitarian Humanist Inclusion Multiculturalism Global Citizen Polyglot Multicultural Poet Cultural Exchange

Book:Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

Source: Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“English is my work language, Turkish is my love language, Spanish is my play language, Telugu is my leisure language. This would probably be different for you - perhaps for you, it all happens in one language - English, and that's perfectly fine. Different people are inspired in different ways - it's alright - as long as all our inspirations converge into one result - a better world for all - where there is no interracial dialogue, there is no intercultural communication, there is no interreligious relations - because - there is but one race, humanity - there is but one culture, humanity - there is but one religion, humanity.”

Diversity Racism Inclusion Multiculturalism Cultural Integration Polyglot Interfaith Dialogue Multicultural Poet Intercultural Communication Interracial

Book:Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn

Source: Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn

“I speak the tongues of earth, I sing the songs of earth. Forever I find myself, In many fervors of earth. Ain't got no single nation, Ain't got no single culture. Human am I, I belong to humans, Come hell or come high water!”

Diversity Oneness One Humanity Global Harmony Global Citizen Cultural Integration Universal Acceptance Polyglot Peace Poetry Intercultural Communication

Book:Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo

Source: Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo

“Get Well Soon (The Sonnet) Upon absorbing all cultures into my blood, I realize, the supreme culture is love. Upon studying all scriptures as my own, I realize, the supreme gospel is love. Even after speaking six languages, I say, the supreme language is love. Upon observing all political ideologies, I say, only ideal worth submission is love. Unfolding the neural underpinnings of behavior, I realize, seed of civilization is love. Unraveling the cellular mysteries of life, I realize, existence oughta be a record of love. Tiny-brained know-it-alls will still yell, their culture beats all, like some tipsy loon. To which all I can say is - get well soon!”

Diversity Inclusion Intolerance Multiculturalism Religious Harmony Cultural Integration Polyglot Peaceful Coexistence Humanist Psychology Intercultural Communication

Book:Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat

Source: Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat

“Chase after form, and you'll miss the soul - throw yourself into the soul, and neurons will regrow.”

Learning Emotional Intelligence Neuroscience Growth Mindset Mindful Language Learning Polyglot Multilingualism Neuroplasticity Pratice

Book:Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

Source: Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“I Exist for I Dissolve in All (Sonnet 2265) My brain is multilingual, my heart is multicultural, my life is multidimensional, I exist for I dissolve in all. You barely speak one language, ramble doctrines from one dead book, can't see beyond the customs of your tribe, yet you say, your truth is the cosmic truth! Fanaticism is compensation for insecurity, supremacy is compensation for inferiority. Over a hundred books, thousands of sonnets, half a thousand limericks, half a thousand free verse poems, yet I still say, I'm incomplete.”

Freedom Bigotry Sufism Fundamentalism Advaita Multiculturalism Fanatics Freethinker Inclusive Polyglot

“A language is a freeway to a culture.”

Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

Language Acceptance Inclusion Cultural Diversity Language Learning Polyglot Languages Languages And Culture Language Barrier Languages And Cultures

Book:Karadeniz Chronicle: The Novel

Source: Karadeniz Chronicle: The Novel

“Childish eurocentric conventions are too puny to contain the vastness of a transcendental human, sometimes I'm Dervish, sometimes Advaita, and the Brain Scientist keeps out the superstition.”

Sufism Nonduality Advaita Multiculturalism Sufi Transcendence Polyglot Eurocentrism Dervish Poet Scientist

“I don't utter a single word that I wouldn't want to become part of the canon, but person can't live on discipline alone, so, having no lover to take my armor off for, I found a different way to vent my vulnerability - in the mainstream work I'm a pillar of strength, while turkish is quite literally my love language - english is the language where my brain feels at home, turkish is the language where my heart finds rest.”

Source: Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

Sufism Multiculturalism Divine Love Cultural Integration Tasavvuf Polyglot Derviş Aşk şIiri Dervish Linguistic Diversity

Book:Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

Source: Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“So far, heritage has only caused a mess. You know why? Because it is never about just heritage - all talk of heritage inadvertently leads us to the savage dilemma of "our heritage versus their heritage". And such dilemma might have been acceptable in a savage society, but it is totally and utterly out of place in a civilized world. So, either the very construct of heritage evolves, or becomes an impediment to the expansion, hence the welfare, of the world as well as the self. That is why I say - just because you are born and raised in a particular culture, it doesn't mean, you are supposed to stay chained to that culture all your life, with blinkers on your eyes, that keep you ignorant of the beauty beyond the horizon. Let me put this into perspective with an unambiguous example. Some of you have asked me, what's my relation to Turkey? Well, everybody loves Rumi, but I learnt his tongue, so I could pick up where he left off. Some of you have asked me, what's my relation to Latin America? Well, everybody loves to yell "viva la libertad", but I learnt el idioma, so I could revolutionize the very paradigm of revolution. Every corner of earth has some distinct strongholds, and I am the force that brings them together to create a strong, sapient, and undivided planet.”

Turkish Writers Diversity And Inclusion Cultural Integration Cultural Heritage Polyglot Viva La Libertad Languages And Culture Multicultural Poet Cultural Studies Polyglottery

Book:Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission

Source: Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission

“I became a polyglot by accident, I became a poet by accident, I became a scientist by accident, but one thing I didn't become by accident, is the bridge between cultures.”

Advaita Diversity And Inclusion Cultural Integration Social Reformer Human Rights Activist Polyglot Cultural Studies Multilingualism Polyglot Poetry Genius Poet

Book:The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo

Source: The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo

“Language is the highway to culture.”

Language Multiculturalism Linguistics Multicultural Polyglot Languages And Culture Language Barrier Cultural Studies Bilingual Language Acquisition

Book:Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood

Source: Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood

“Languages are but echoes of each other, Based on the environment each feels unique. No language is superior, no language is inferior, All are born of human mind to meet at heart's peak.”

Linguistics Language Learning Polyglot Languages Languages And Culture Multilingualism Bilingual Multilingual Language Studies

Book:Insan Himalayanoğlu: It's Time to Defect

Source: Insan Himalayanoğlu: It's Time to Defect

“I switch cultures like clothes, I switch sciences like pens. I switch scriptures like tides, I switch languages like seasons.”

Humanist Integration Multiculturalism Interfaith Polyglot Multicultural Poet Cultural Studies Bilingual Bilingualism Polyglot Poet

“Language is Highway to A Culture (Diary of A Polyglot Neuroscientist, S.2392) Languages are not ornaments, languages are organs, channeling spirit from the heart. Language is highway to a culture, language requires a vessel, not translator. Soon earbuds will feature instant translation, which will render crosscultural conversation seamless, but at the same time, lifeless, hollow and cold. Until we develop the brain technology to communicate meaning telepathically without talking, no amount of translation can carry the warmth, nuances and sentiment of a lived language. As added perk, speaking more than one language delays age-related cognitive decline. Therefore no matter how you look at it, one broken second language is far more valuable than all the mass-produced subtitles.”

Source: Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

Language Linguistics Translation Language Learning Polyglot Language Barrier Multilingualism Bilingual Language Studies

“If you simply copy and paste instant translations, you only end up with meaningless and contextless junk, which has no relation to the culture and the people.”

Source: Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

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“Better to have no translation, than to have a translation without soul.”

Source: World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

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“Even after speaking six languages, I say, the supreme language is love.”

Source: World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

Linguistics Polyglot Languages Languages And Culture Multicultural Poet Language Barrier Bilingual Multilingual Linguistic Diversity Muticulturalism

Book:Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat

Source: Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat

“Öncelikle ben insan, iyilik benim iman; mundo mi monasterio, annihilation my azan.”

Sufism Humanidad Integration Advaita Multiculturalism Insanlık Divinidad Polyglot Multicultural Poet Bilingual

“One broken second language is far more valuable than all the mass-produced subtitles.”

Source: Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

Language Language Learning Polyglot Languages And Culture Multilingualism Bilingual Multilingual Bilingualism

“Speaking more than one language delays age-related cognitive decline.”

Source: Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

Language Learning Polyglot Multilingualism Bilingual Multilingual Bilingualism

“Until we develop the brain technology to communicate meaning telepathically without talking, no amount of translation can carry the warmth, nuances and sentiment of a lived language.”

Source: Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

Language Linguistics Language Learning Telepathy Polyglot Language Barrier Multilingualism Bilingual Language Studies