Ataol Behramoğlu: Mean

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

Ataol Behramoğlu: 36 quotes 0 likes

“Who can know anything best of all
What does it mean to know anything best
Which religion doesn't grow old”

Ataol Behramoğlu

"How Awful When Poetry Ages As It Is Read"
I've Learned Some Things (2008)
Context: I'd make me into a brand new sailor if I were God
Maybe there were new things over there
It comes from within me to write as though rabid, I'm hungry, do you understand
Let the doctors call it what they will
Who can know anything best of all
What does it mean to know anything best
Which religion doesn't grow old

Religion

“They were eyes, that while gazing on the world
Rendered it brilliant with meaning”

Ataol Behramoğlu

"They Were Eyes", as translated at Kritya : A Journal of Poetry http://www.kritya.in/0703/en/editors_choice.html
Context: They were eyes, that while gazing on the world
Rendered it brilliant with meaning They were eyes, that embraced me with glances
They were eyes, for which I now hopelessly long

World

“I do not remember any other term when the force that had captured the political power in this country had become so vulgar as it is today, so corrupt, and so hypocritical; when the legal system had been so downtrodden, deteriorated, collapsed and turned into a means of cruelty.”

Ataol Behramoğlu

"Two Heart Pain" ["İki Kalp Ağrısı"], in Republic [Cumhuriyet] (16 June 2012)

Country