Yahya Kemal Beyatli

Yahya Kemal Beyatli (1884-1958), Yahya Kemal in short, born Ahmet Âgâh, was a Turkish poet, politician, and diplomat. He was a neoclassical poet who imitated the masters of Ottoman and Persian traditions. He is best-known for poems that captured scenes of Istanabul.

Wisdom & Quotes

• Death for an epicure is the springtime of calm and peace;

For years his soul smolders like incense burning everywhere
While his tomb lies and endures under the cool cypresses -
Each dawn a rose blooms and each night a nightingale sings there.
- Death of the Epicures

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