Those who can truly see, know.
Many years before, Ka had explained to me that when a good poet is confronted with difficult facts that he knows to be true but also inimical to poetry, he has no choice but to feel to the margins; it...
…he quit drinking coffee, and naturally, his brain stopped working.
لعلّهم اعتادوا . ما أسوأ هذا !لإن الإنسان وهو ميّت يشعر بإن الحياة التي تركها خلفه تسير كما تركها , وكما كانت في الماضي.
We had no desire to live in Istanbul, nor in Paris or New York. Let them have their discos and dollars, their skycrapers and supersonics transports. Let them have their radios and their color TV, hey,...
To know is to remember that you've seen.To see is to know without remembering. Thus painting is remembering the blackness.
The gap between compassion and surrender is love’s darkest, deepest region.
The drinking of coffee is an absolute sin! Our Glorious Prophet did not partake of coffee because he knew it dulled the intellect, caused ulcers, hernia and sterility; he understood that coffee was no...
Over time, I have come to see the work of literature less as narrating the world than seeing the world with words.From the moment he begins to use words like colors in a painting, a writer can begin t...
Let everyone know, I lived a very happy life.
Kafamda bir tuhaflık var, dedi Mevlut. Ne yapsam bu alemde yapayalnız hissediyorum kendimi. Ben yanındayken bir daha asla öyle hissetmeyeceksin, dedi Rayiha anaç bir tavırla. Mevlut çayhanenin camları...
It was as if he were in a place that the whole world had forgotten; as if it were snowing at the end of the world.
If we give what we treasure most to a Being we love with all our hearts, if we can do that without expecting anything in return, then the world becomes a beautiful place.
Hayatımın en mutlu anıymış, bilmiyordum.
En realidad nadie sabe que está viviendo el momento más feliz de su vida mientras lo vive.
Contrary to what the West seems to think, it is not poverty that brings people like us so close to God. It's the fact that no one is more curious than we are to learn why we are here on earth and what...
'The Museum of Innocence' is not about politics; it's a love story, but I think it's political in the sense that it wants to capture how a man suppresses a woman.
Authoritarianism, an unrealistic occidental imagination - these issues will never be settled. Turkey will continue to take Europe as a model; it will continue to pursue its search for democracy.
I have always thought that the place where you sleep or the place you share with your partner should be separate from the place where you write. The domestic rituals and details somehow kill the imagi...
We read novels because we want to see the world through other experiences, other beings, other eyes, other cultures.