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Yunus Emre

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I tried to make sense of the Four Books, until love arrived, and it all became a single syllable.


— Yunus Emre


#uncut-block #whitman #love

Sufilere sohbet gerek Ahilere ahret gerek Mecnunlara Leyla gerek Bana seni gerek seni


— Yunus Emre


#poetry #sufism #love

Hak cihâna tolıdur kimseler Hakk’ı bilmez / Anı sen senden iste o senden ayru olmaz.


— Yunus Emre


#poetry #sufism #inspirational

A heart makes a good home for the friend.


— Yunus Emre


#friend #good #heart #makes

If I told you about a land of love, friend, would you follow me and come?


— Yunus Emre


#come #follow #friend #i #land

Thought is an errand boy, fear a mine of worries.


— Yunus Emre


#errand #fear #mine #thought #worries






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In 1946 Ahmed Adnan Saygun composed an oratorio entitled Yunus Emre. This is also the language of a number of anonymous folk-poets folk-songs fairy tales riddles (tekerlemeler) and proverbs.

Like the Oghuz Book of Dede Korkut an older and anonymous Central Asian epic the Turkish folklore that inspired Yunus Emre in his occasional use of tekerlemeler as a poetic device had been handed down orally to him and his contemporaries. This is also the language of a number of anonymous folk-poets folk-songs fairy tales riddles (tekerlemeler) and proverbs. His poems written in the tradition of Anatolian folk poetry mainly concern divine love as well as human destiny:

Yunus Emre's portrait is depicted on the reverse of the Turkish 200 lira banknote issued in 2009.

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