Cemal Sureya

Cemal Sureya (1931-1990), born Cemalettin Seber, was a Turkish poet. He was champion of obscurantist verse and aimed to go beyond surrealism by achieving a complete meaninglessness in poetry.

Wisdom & Quotes

• We are novices of a new life

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Maybe we are living the last bad days
Maybe we shall live the first good days too
There is something bitter in this air
Between the past and the future
Between suffering and joy
Between anger and forgiveness.

• At first only your hands came between me and lineliness

Then of a sudden the doors were opened wide
Then your face and then your eyes and then your lips
Then everything came.
- At First, Uvercinka

Shuntaro Tanikawa