Voice of the Day: Nazim Hikmet | Sojourners

Voice of the Day: Nazim Hikmet

You must take living so seriously that even at seventy, for example, you'll plant olive trees -- and not for your children, either, but because although you fear death you don't believe it, because living, I mean, weighs heavier.

- Nazim Hikmet
Turkish poet, persecuted during the Cold War for his communist views (1901-1963)

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