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Nazim Hikmet: ‘We must live as if we will never die’

Thu, 2008-06-12 12:36 | Simon Korner
A self portrait: Nazim Hikmet in his prison cell, 1946

Two poems by the great Turkish poet Nazim Hikmet, 'Some Advice To Those Who Will Spend Time in Prison' and 'On Living', show us that life, for all its grief, is the most beautiful thing. It should be lived for humanity and for the future.