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"The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century."

"Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right."

"Hungary is very similar to Bulgaria. I know they're different countries."

"Our country presents on every side the evidences of that continued favor under whose auspices it, has gradually risen from a few feeble and dependent colonies to a prosperous and powerful confederacy."

"Every nation must have prayerful men and women to intercede for the country's well-being."

"The desired modernization and rationalisation of Turkey will never be realised till the day the Modern Turks of AtatA1?4rk come to power because only modern and rational minds can create a modern and a rational country!"
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"To me many short poems read and write like beginnings that simply whet my appetite; I want to get over that."

"An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This makes poetry very exciting, unstable, and interactive."

"The poet must decide not to impose his feelings in order to write without sentimentality."

"I have become intrigued with the combining of seemingly unrelated ideas or images, or the drawing upon the many, sometimes dissimilar, meanings a word might have."

"My obsession with time informs my poetry so completely it is hard for me to summarize it. We want time to pass, for new things to happen to us, we want to hold on to certain moments, we don't want our lives to end."

"A literary journal is intended to connect writer with reader; the role of the editor is to mediate."

"I have always been very obsessed with time. Time's passage makes us all very vulnerable and because we all experience it in our own way, it can make us feel very alone."

"The reader's challenge is to replicate the experiment by reading the poem and to draw their own conclusions."
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