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Things I Didn’t Know I Loved by Nâzim Hikmet - Poems | Academy of American Poets

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it's 1962 March 28th

Things I Didn’t Know I Loved Add to anthology × Nâzim Hikmet 1902 - 1963 it’s 1962 March 28th I’m sitting by the window on the Prague-Berlin train night is falling I never knew I liked night descending like a tired bird on a smoky wet plain I don’t like comparing nightfall to a tired bird I didn’t know I loved the earth can someone who hasn’t worked the earth love it I’ve never worked the earth it must be my only Platonic love and here I’ve loved rivers all this time whether motionless like this they curl skirting the hills European hills crowned with chateaus or whether stretched out fl

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