23 November 2015

Beauty will save the world. It will start with loving someone.
The Turkish journalist, social and political activist Gürkan Özturan and the Irish poet Maria McManus recently translated the poem AdA by the Turkish writer Sait Faik Abasiyanik. This is one line from it. On the same day, the news came in of the bombing in Ankara.

3 comments:

am said...

Yes. Saved by beauty. Again and again.

Anonymous said...

It's a beautiful line, I so hope it is true.

Nick said...

If only that were true. There's not much evidence of i though.