you must take living so seriously
that even at seventy, for example , you'll plant olive trees-
and not for your children, either,
but because although you fear death you don't believe it,
because living, I mean, weighs heavier.
...
Let's say we're in prison
and close to fifty,
and we have eighteen more years, say,
before the iron doors will open.
We'll still live with the outside,
with its people and animals, struggle and wind-
I mean with the outside beyond the walls.

I mean, however and wherever we are,
we must live as if we will never die!

***NAZIM HİKMET***