Saturday, March 5, 2022

Newton’s Apple

27 October 1945

We are one half of an apple,
                                   the other half is the big world.
We are one half of an apple,
                                   the other half is our people.
You are one half of an apple,
                                   the other half is me,
                                                             us two...

Nâzım Hikmet
English translation by Randy Blasing and Mutlu Konuk

Hikmet with his fourth and last wife, Vera Vladimirovna Tulyakova.

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