Living is no laughing matter: you must live with great seriousness like a squirrel, for example-- I mean without looking for something beyond and above living, I mean living must be your whole life. Living is no laughing matter: you must take it seriously, so much so and to such a degree that, for example, your hands tied behind your back, your back to the wall, or else in a laboratory in your white coat and safety glasses, you can die for people-- even for people whose faces youve never seen, even though you know living is the most real, the most beautiful thing. I mean, you must take living so seriously that even at seventy, for example, youll plant olive trees-- and not for your children, either, but because although you fear death you dont believe it, because living, I mean, weighs heavier. On Living, Nazim Hikmet
Posted on: Sat, 26 Apr 2014 09:01:27 +0000