{"id":38512154,"date":"2009-12-18T07:36:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-18T07:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/2009\/12\/18\/Nazim-Hikmet-We-must-live-as-if-we-will-never-die\/"},"modified":"2009-12-18T03:42:49","modified_gmt":"2009-12-18T03:42:49","slug":"Nazim-Hikmet-We-must-live-as-if-we-will-never-die\/","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/?p=38512154","title":{"rendered":"Nazim Hikmet: &#8216;We must live as if we will never die&#8217; -&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"sustuff\">Stumbleupon Review of : <a href=\"http:\/\/21stcenturysocialism.com\/article\/nazim_hikmet_we_must_live_as_if_we_will_never_die_01658.html\">http:\/\/21stcenturysocialism.com\/article\/nazim_hikmet_we_must_live_as_if_we_will_never_die_01658.html<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stumbleupon.com\/to\/1SJ2ft\/21stcenturysocialism.com\/article\/nazim_hikmet_we_must_live_as_if_we_will_never_die_01658.html\/t:4b2afa1286cde;src:reviews\"><img src=\"http:\/\/bunty.tv\/images\/smallstumble.png\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"review\">\n<div align=\"center\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.daviddarling.info\/images\/Earth_living_planet.jpg\" style=\"border:1px solid #fff;\" \/><\/div>\n<ul style=\"font-family: Verdana, Sans-Serif; width : 330px; margin : 10px auto; padding : 60px 65px 45px; color : #ca8; line-height : 1.5em; background: url(https:\/\/secure.uk-h.net\/b\/box-top-clear.png) no-repeat 10px 10px; width : 450px; margin-left : 140px;\"><b>On Living<\/b><\/p>\n<p> 1<br \/> Living is no laughing matter :<br \/> you must live with great seriousness <br \/> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; like a squirrel, for example &#8211;<br \/> I mean without looking for something beyond and above living,<br \/> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I mean living must be your whole occupation.<br \/> Living is no laughing matter:<br \/> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; you must take it seriously, <br \/> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; so much so and to such a degree<br \/> that, for example, your hands tied behind your back, <br \/> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; your back to the wall,<br \/> or else in a laboratory,<br \/> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; in your white coat and safety glasses,<br \/> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; you can die for people &#8211;<br \/> even for people whose faces you have never seen,<br \/> even though you know living<br \/> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; is the most real, the most beautiful thing.<br \/> I mean, you must take living so seriously<br \/> that even at seventy, for example, you&#39;ll plant olive trees &#8211;<br \/> and not for your children, either<br \/> but because although you fear death you don&#39;t believe it,<br \/> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; because living, I mean, weighs heavier. <\/p>\n<p> 1947<\/p>\n<p> 2<br \/> Let&#39;s say we are seriously ill, need surgery &#8211;<br \/> which is to say we might not get up<br \/> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; from the white table.<br \/> Even though it&#39;s impossible not to feel sad<br \/> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; about going a little too soon, <br \/> we&#39;ll still laugh at the jokes being told,<br \/> we&#39;ll look out the window to see if it&#39;s raining,<br \/> or still wait anxiously<br \/> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; for the latest newscast&#8230;<br \/> Let&#39;s say we are at the front &#8211;<br \/> for something worth fighting for, say.<br \/> There, in the first offensive, on that very day,<br \/> We might fall on our face, dead.<br \/> We&#39;ll know this with a curious anger,<br \/> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; but we&#39;ll still worry ourselves to death<br \/> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; about the outcome of the war, which could last years.<br \/> Let&#39;s say we&#39;re in prison<br \/> and close to fifty,<br \/> and we have eighteen more years, say,<br \/> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;before the iron doors will open. <br \/> We&#39;ll still live with the outside, <br \/> with its people and animals, struggle and wind &#8211;<br \/> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;I mean with the outside beyond the walls.<br \/> I mean, however and wherever we are,<br \/> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; we must live as if we will never die&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> 1948<\/p>\n<p> 3<br \/> This earth will grow cold, a star among stars <br \/> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;and one of the smallest,<br \/> a gilded mote on blue velvet &#8211;<br \/> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I mean this, our great earth.<br \/> This earth will grow cold one day.<br \/> not like a block of ice<br \/> or a dead cloud even<br \/> but like an empty walnut it will roll along <br \/> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; in pitch-black space.<br \/> You must grieve for this right now<br \/> &#8211; you have to feel this sorrow now &#8211;<br \/> for the world must be loved this much <br \/> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;if you&#39;re going to say &quot;I lived&quot;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> February 1948<br \/><b style=\"display : block; background : url(https:\/\/secure.uk-h.net\/b\/box-bottom-clear.png) no-repeat bottom right; height : 60px; width : 100%; position : relative; top : -10px; left : 50px;\"><\/b><\/ul>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stumbleupon Review of : http:\/\/21stcenturysocialism.com\/article\/nazim_hikmet_we_must_live_as_if_we_will_never_die_01658.html On Living 1 Living is no laughing matter : you must live with great seriousness &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; like a squirrel, for example &#8211; I mean without looking for something beyond and above living, &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/?p=38512154\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":""},"categories":[],"tags":[305],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38512154"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38512154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38512154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38512154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38512154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38512154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}