All Poems - Orhan Veli

Orhan Veli: The "chain breaker", the "cap wearer", the "civilizer", the "open air poet" of Turkish poetry...

" Orhan Veli took a much further step: He showed that poetry does not have its own language, meter, nor will it have its own subjects, and he explained that harmony and music can also be removed from poetry."
-Nurullah Ataç

"Orhan Veli's fight is the biggest fight of our literature, I believe that. He reduced the river bed to a more natural valley. He put a cap on poetry and made it civilian. Today's poetry yields are a little more his achievements."
- Cemal Süreyya

"Every sentence aside, Orhan Veli is the poet of the open air in every sense. If the streets have widened and the books have become thinner, this is not Çalap's work. The poetic effect of a present that continues towards the future! Not only a change of scale, it is completely Atonal. The Orhan Veli incident has also lost its eventfulness." "His poetry seems to have remained, in broad terms."
-Ece Ayhan