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HIS EVALUATION OF OTHER ARTISTS
Yahya Kemal Beyatlı (1884-1958)
"Please do understand me very well, I like Yahya Kemal not as a poet but as a master who rendered great services to the technique of Turkish poetry and as a cultured and tasteful teacher in his own style and mentality. And I do not deny these sides and I am ready to fight against those who do. But if I leave aside his artistic side, his poetship, do I make sense my dear, his poetship is not important. His influence on politics and on society, in my point of view, is narrow-minded and reactionary..."
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