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WHAT DID THEY WRITE ABOUT HIM?
Tristan Tzara (1896-1963)
"Breathing the very hopes of the Turkish nation from beginning to end, Nâzım Hikmet's poetry embraces the common desires of all nations, blending them in an utmost human narration. In this regard, Nâzım's poetry is the landlord of the productive field of the contemporary human, and it thus has acquired perpetually the value of truth by virtue of the multitudinousness of its historical value.
"Although it possesses undeniable originality, Nâzım's poetry is not alien to the structure of contemporary western poetry. He is in the same structural line especially with Mayakovski and Garcia Lorca.
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"Those who comprehend Nâzım's historical role in his native land's literature well know that Nâzım's name is synonymous with the silent but powerful struggle of the masses against the dark forces of anti-revolution." (From "On Nâzım Hikmet.")
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