Frasi di Nazım Hikmet
Nazım Hikmet
Data di nascita: 15. Gennaio 1902
Data di morte: 3. Giugno 1963
Altri nomi: Nazim Hikmet
Nâzım Hikmet , in italiano spesso scritto Nazim Hikmet, all'anagrafe Nâzım Hikmet Ran è stato un poeta, drammaturgo e scrittore turco naturalizzato polacco.
Definito "comunista romantico" o "rivoluzionario romantico", è considerato uno dei più importanti poeti turchi dell'epoca moderna.
Frasi Nazım Hikmet
„Amo in te | l'avventura della nave che va verso il polo | amo in te | l'audacia dei giocatori delle grandi scoperte | amo in te le cose lontane | amo in te l'impossibile.“
da Lettere dal carcere a Munevvér, 1943
Poesie d'amore
„Il più bello dei mari | è quello che non navigammo. | Il più bello dei nostri figli | non è ancora cresciuto. | I più belli dei nostri giorni | non li abbiamo ancora vissuti. | E quello | che vorrei dirti di più bello | non te l'ho ancora detto.“
da Lettere dal carcere a Munevvér, 1942
Poesie d'amore
„La città di Praga è incisa su una coppa di vetro | incisa con un diamante. | Risuonerebbe se la toccassi: | striata d'oro, limpida e bianca.“
da Ore di Praga. 2 Il mattino. Praga ottimista. (1957), p. 71
Poesie
„At eighteen you sleep without memories.“
From Human Landscapes from My Country, Book Two, Section VII
„You are free to be arrested, imprisoned“
From A Sad State Of Freedom
Contesto: You waste the attention of your eyes,
the glittering labour of your hands,
and knead the dough enough for dozens of loaves
of which you'll taste not a morsel;
you are free to slave for others—
you are free to make the rich richer.
The moment you're born
they plant around you
mills that grind lies
lies to last you a lifetime.
You keep thinking in your great freedom
a finger on your temple
free to have a free conscience.
Your head bent as if half-cut from the nape,
your arms long, hanging,
your saunter about in your great freedom:
you're free
with the freedom of being unemployed.
You love your country
as the nearest, most precious thing to you.
But one day, for example,
they may endorse it over to America,
and you, too, with your great freedom—
you have the freedom to become an air-base.
You may proclaim that one must live
not as a tool, a number or a link
but as a human being—
then at once they handcuff your wrists.
You are free to be arrested, imprisoned
and even hanged.
There's neither an iron, wooden
nor a tulle curtain
in your life;
there's no need to choose freedom:
you are free.
But this kind of freedom
is a sad affair under the stars.
„You may proclaim that one must live“
From A Sad State Of Freedom
Contesto: You waste the attention of your eyes,
the glittering labour of your hands,
and knead the dough enough for dozens of loaves
of which you'll taste not a morsel;
you are free to slave for others—
you are free to make the rich richer.
The moment you're born
they plant around you
mills that grind lies
lies to last you a lifetime.
You keep thinking in your great freedom
a finger on your temple
free to have a free conscience.
Your head bent as if half-cut from the nape,
your arms long, hanging,
your saunter about in your great freedom:
you're free
with the freedom of being unemployed.
You love your country
as the nearest, most precious thing to you.
But one day, for example,
they may endorse it over to America,
and you, too, with your great freedom—
you have the freedom to become an air-base.
You may proclaim that one must live
not as a tool, a number or a link
but as a human being—
then at once they handcuff your wrists.
You are free to be arrested, imprisoned
and even hanged.
There's neither an iron, wooden
nor a tulle curtain
in your life;
there's no need to choose freedom:
you are free.
But this kind of freedom
is a sad affair under the stars.
„The strangest of our powers
Is the courage to live
Knowing that we will die,
Knowing nothing more true.“
From In the Snowy Night Woods (10 March 1956)
