“Looking at this insolent earth,
you hear the first battle cry of our species-
trap it under a rock
and together, screaming, attack
and destroy it, as if killing a mammoth.”

From Human Landscapes from My Country, Book Two, Section VII

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Turkish poet 1902–1963

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