"Turkey's persistent denial and inability to face, or unwillingness to face up to its history is very disruptive in all kinds of ways - in terms of international relations, in terms of its own internal politics - and it also prevents it from really recognizing how do you deal with minorities."

VOA: standard.2010.03.19

All of the self-discipline and all of the self-denial in the world can do nothing -- this seems to be one of the implications of this poem - can do nothing to protect the poet from an untimely death.

所有的自律和自我克制,都无能为力--这似乎是《利西达斯》的含义之一,-所有这些都无法避免这位诗人的早逝。

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