Clergyman's

To your utmost, listen to every beautiful song
As though filling all the self with sound and melody
One should plunge head-first into life
As one dives from a cliff into the emerald sea
- Ataol Behramoğlu

Creativity is a hidden gem. Education is needed to uncover it.
- Ataol Behramoğlu

In the most affirming places of their love
Suddenly they grew tired, out of breath
Little by little they felt the death
Of some places left in darkness
- Ataol Behramoğlu

In the most affirming places of their love
Suddenly they grew tired, out of breath
Little by little they felt the death
Of some places left in darkness
- Ataol Behramoğlu

In the most affirming places of their love
Suddenly they grew tired, out of breath
Little by little they felt the death
Of some places left in darkness
- Ataol Behramoğlu

A person can gaze at the sky for hours
Can gaze for hours at a bird, a child, the sea
To live on the earth is to become part of it
To strike down roots that won't pull free
- Ataol Behramoğlu

A poem is a living organism.
- Ataol Behramoğlu

Once more in that hour of darkness
In dark black waters they arise
Dark songs pass before their eyes
They lie awake gazing into darkness
- Ataol Behramoğlu

Writing poems is perhaps the loveliest deception
Later they'll make a picture or something, then go and drink wine
- Ataol Behramoğlu

Gulls into the water, women proudly into the bazaars
I was going to write a poem, I was stifling, fed up with old things
Eat, my mother says, but they're all things I've grown accustomed to, in the end.
Like Camus and — I don’t know — people like that, I'm cracking up
Everything will begin when it untangles itself from your hair
- Ataol Behramoğlu