Sadness Comes To The Address

Sadness is the name of an indescribable taste in Anatolia. Like the bitterness of pepper… Burning, aching, sweating; Then it gives a unique flavor, a strange comfort… “Sadness” is a special emotion that we are always “familiar with”. Like a hawk’s claw, the lover’s sad glance carves us through. “We are not familiar with the generation that does not know sadness.” says Yahya Kemal. So much sadness has permeated our souls for generations…