“There must be something,” Orhan Veli Kanik

Is the sea as beautiful as this every day?
Does the sky look like this all the time?
Is this furniture, this window
always as lovely as this?

No
by God no,
There must be something behind this somewhere.

“There must be something,” Orhan Veli Kanik, translated by Bernard Lewis (1982)

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