Can’t you see, freedom is everywhere.
Be the sail, the oar, the rudder, the fish, the sea.
Go wherever you can.
translated by George Messo
Month: November 2018
Today’s Quote — from Theresa at Soul Gatherings
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. ~ T.S. Eliot ~ ______
from Poems on travel: II by Orhan Veli Kanık
The melody you whistle
Is sweet
Those nights you’re drunk.
But the same tune
At a train window
Isn’t sweet at all.
translated by George Messo
2am
there’s nothing worse
than 2am
except 3am
then maybe 4
from Poems on asphalt : I by Orhan Veli Kanık
What a great thing:
To see an unknown horizon
When a roadside building
Is pulled down.
translated by George Messo
In Memory: “More often than we care to admit, inconsequential decisions change our lives.”
from Douglas Moore’s Art of Quotation
“More often than we care to admit, inconsequential decisions change our lives.”
Donald McCaig, writer, 1940-2018, book quote from “Rhett Butler’s People”, p.122, Macmillan
See what happens by Orhan Veli Kanık
See what happens when you don’t hear
The pistachio splitting apart on the branch,
Just see what happens to you.
See what happens, if you don’t hear this rain
Or the tolling bell or the man talking,
See what happens if you don’t smell the seaweed
Or the lobster, the shrimp,
Blowing in wind from the sea. . .
translated by George Messo
“The ideal state is that in which an injury done to the least of its citizens is an injury done to all.”
from Douglas Moore’s Art of Quotation
“The ideal state is that in which an injury done to the least of its citizens is an injury done to all.”
Solon, philosopher
from Headache : II by Orhan Veli Kanık
Even if I go home now
I can leave again a little later,—
These clothes and shoes are mine
And the streets belong to no one.
translated by George Messo
Walking the streets by Orhan Veli Kanık
Walking the streets, when I catch
Myself smiling to myself
And think how crazy they’ll suppose I am
I smile even more.
translated by George Messo
Leonard Durso 