Orhan Veli Kanik

Orhan Veli Kanik (1914-1950) was a Turkish poet and a key figure in Turkish literary movement for modernism. Most of his writings were for common people.

Wisdom & Quotes

• All the things we did for our country.

Some of us died
Some of us gave speeches.
- "Varan icin" (For the Homeland)

• (Poetry) was invented by primitive man to make it easy to remember the second line; then he found a certain beauty in it.

- Garip (A Stranger in a Stranger Land)

• The people who fill the modern world are winning the right to live, after a ceaseless struggle. They have a right to peotry, as to everything else, and poetry will address itself to their tastes.

- Garip

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