His name is currently among X’s top 10 trends, with Greek users honoring Hikmet with verses from his poems
At January 15, 1902 was born in Thessaloniki The Nazim Hikmet (Nâzım Hikmet Ran), the great Turkish poet and communist, whose works moved millions of people around the world and were translated into many languages.
His name is currently among the 10 trending topics of X (formerly Twitter), with Greek users honoring Hikmet with verses from his poems, several of which were set to music by Manos Loizos and Thanos Mikroutsikos.
If I don’t burn
if you don’t burn
if we don’t burn
how will they become my brother
the darkness light?
(Born on this day in 1902, the militant Turkish poet, Nazim Hikmet) pic.twitter.com/WKqEnHPoQR— Bella ciao (@5WcbwyGvkfW4nbf) January 15, 2024
On this day, January 15, 1902….. he was born in Thessaloniki… one of the most important poets of world literature of the 20th century.
The “poet of freedom”….
Nazim Hikmet.“The worst thing is….. that man carries the prison inside him.” pic.twitter.com/peAk3FTcbY
— Stravoxilo (@Stravoxilo) January 15, 2024
Hikmet lived most of his life in Soviet Union and passed away in Moscow from a heart attack at age 61 years old.His grave is located in the Novodevichy Cemetery, Moscow’s historic cemetery, where famous figures of Russian intellectuals, art and politics have their final resting place.
I am a communist
I’m love from head to toe
love means I see, I think, I understand,
love will say the child that is born,
the light that floods
love means tying a cradle to the stars.Nazim Hikmet was born on this day in 1902 pic.twitter.com/fKB7DovM3A
— Enzo (@Enzo96475190) January 15, 2024
With a ministerial decree, the poet regained the Turkish citizenship that was taken away from him in 1951 because of his political beliefs.
Poems set to music by Manos Loizos and Thanos Mikroutsikos
• If by mediation
• If half my heart
• Indescribable they say
• For life
• The most beautiful sea
• My precious
• Like Kerem
• Angina pectoris
• The net
• A few cloves
• Microcosm
• The Builders
• The poem: “They fear our songs” was set to music by Makis Psaradellis, published by MORAITIS
Source :Skai
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