Ataol Behramoğlu: Going

Ataol Behramoğlu is Turkish writer. Explore interesting quotes on going.

Ataol Behramoğlu: 36 quotes 0 likes

“How awful always to take refuge in known words
A person should let himself go.”

Ataol Behramoğlu

"How Awful When Poetry Ages As It Is Read"
I've Learned Some Things (2008)
Context: Is the truth of tablecloths to be spread? How awful always to take refuge in known words
A person should let himself go.

Personality

“I was going to write a poem, I was stifling, fed up with old things”

Ataol Behramoğlu

"How Awful When Poetry Ages As It Is Read"
I've Learned Some Things (2008)
Context: 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

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

Ataol Behramoğlu

"How Awful When Poetry Ages As It Is Read"
I've Learned Some Things (2008)

Drink , Wine