Zamanda geriye doğru yolculuk yapmanın en kısa yolu tarih okumaktır

Alaaddin Soykan

(1943- …)

Silent

What sort of shore am I?

what sort of water are you?

All animals hold tehir tongues within me

The murmuring too are at your command

(Translated by Mevlut Ceylan, 101Poems by 101Poets An Anthology of Turkish Poetry)