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Ziya Gökalp
1918
Turkey (Original Language: Turkish)

POEMS (1918)   Language For us Turkish is a beautiful tongue, Another tongue, is like night to us. Istanbul speech is The purest, most refined for us.   In language the word everyone knows Is considered genuine The word whose meaning can be understood Without a glance at the dictionary.   We don’t invent artificial …