İlk yağmur damlası düştü

İlk yağmur damlası düştü
Kuru yapraklarına güzün.
Ardında kış kıyamet,
Dert, hüzün.

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Ha yazı, ha kışı geceyle gündüzün.
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Ziya Osman

Göle çevirdiler beni

Sevenlere gönül verdim
Yola çevirdiler beni
Damla bile değil idim
Göle çevirdiler beni

Tohumu döl eylediler
Dikeni gül eylediler
Yari bülbül eylediler
Güle çevirdiler beni

Serimi sevdaya saldım
Gah boşaldım gahi doldum
Muhabbet arısı oldum
Bala çevirdiler beni

Mıskini'yi eğittiler
Dane dane öğüttüler
Dil bilmezdim öğrettiler
Dile çevirdiler beni

(Sadık Mıskini)

Be many people

‘‘... and you, Marcus, you have given me many things; now I shall give you this good advice. Be many people. Give up the game of being always Marcus Cocoza. You have worried too much about Marcus Cocoza, so that you have been really his slave and prisoner. You have not done anything without first considering how it would affect Marcus Cocoza’s happiness and prestige. You were always much afraid that Marcus might do a stupid thing, or be bored. What would it really have mattered? All over the world people are doing stupid things ... I should like you to be easy, your little heart to be light again. You must from now, be more than one, many people, as many as you can think of ...’’
– Karen Blixen
(‘‘The Dreamers’’ from ‘‘Seven Gothic Tales’’
written under the pseudonym Isak Dinesen, Random House, Inc.
Copyright, Isac Dinesen, 1934 renewed 1961)