Asaf Halet Celebi

Asaf Halet Celebi (1907-1958) was a Turkish poet. He is famous for iconoclastic surreal poetry, and as an innovator in modern Turkish literature.

Wisdom & Quotes

• Poetry creates an abstract world using concrete materials - just like life itself.
• A poem is nothing but a long word made up of syllables joined together. Syllables by themselves have no meaning. It is therefore futile to struggle with meaning in a poem.

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