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WHAT DID THEY WRITE ABOUT HIM?
Ahmet Haşim (1885-1933)
"This meter is not among the ones we have known up to today; this language does not resemble the language of poetry used until now. Nâzım Hikmet did not invent his style on his own; these kinds of poems are being written all over the world these days. Nâzım Hikmet is a new great poet of ours, who managed to grasp this style, to transform it into Turkish and to plant it in the soil of this climate. It is fact that this kind of poetry is now preferred to the older one. In the past, poetry was song to one pipe alone. Nâzım Hikmet brought into being a great orchestra rather than one instrument. But this rich orchestra plays only some excited airs of the marching-tune sort."
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