Five Lines
To overcome lies in the heart, in the streets, in the books from the lullabies of the mothers to the news report that the speaker reads, understanding, my love, what a great joy it is, to understand what is gone and what is on the way.
Nâzım Hikmet
English translation by Fatih Akgül |
Achilles and Ajax (?) playing a board game, detail. Etruscan mirror (after Körte 1897, pl. 109). Credit: Ulrich Schädler.
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