Translation - Turkish-English - nazÄ±m hikmet

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Category Poetry - Love / Friendship

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nazÄ±m hikmet

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tango_rr

Source language: Turkish

insan ya hayrandÄ±r sana ya dÃ¼ÅŸman,
ya hiÃ§ yokmuÅŸsun gibi unutulursun,
ya bir dakka bile Ã§Ä±kmazsÄ±n akÄ±ldan.

ruhum ne ondan Ã¶nce vardÄ±,
ne ondan ayrÄ± bir sÄ±rrÄ±n kemalidir.
ruhum onun o dÄ±ÅŸÄ±mda ki alemin bende akseden hayalidir,
ve aslÄ±nda en uzak ve aslÄ±nda en yakÄ±n hayal,
bana Ä±ÅŸÄ±ÄŸÄ± vuran yarimin cemalidir.

Title	a person is either your admirer or your enemy
Translation English Translated by kafetzou	Target language: English a person is either your admirer or your enemy either you are forgotten as if you had never lived, or you do not leave people's minds for even a second my soul neither existed before that, nor was it the solution of any mystery separate from that my soul is the spirit which the world outside of me takes from me, and truly the furthest and truly the closest spirit, it is the beauty of my beloved's face, which shines its light on me.
Remarks about the translation	In the first two lines of the second part, "that" could be "him" or "her". This is apparently a Nazim Hikmet poem.

Last validated or edited by samanthalee - 12 June 2007 05:14