Yunus Emre
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"Yunus Emre" (1240?–1320?) was a Turkic peoples/Turkish Poetry/poet and Sufism/Sufi Mysticism/mystic. He has exercised immense influence on Turkish literature, from his own day until the present. Because Yunus Emre is, after Ahmet Yesevi and Sultan Walad, one of the first known poets to have composed works in the spoken Turkish of his own age and region rather than in Persian or Arabic, his diction remains very close to the popular speech of his contemporaries in Central and Western Anatolia. This is also the language of a number of anonymous folk-poets, folk-songs, fairy tales, riddles (tekerlemeler), and proverbs.

Like the Oghuz languages/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 strictly oral tradition continued for a long while.

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A Heart makes a good home for the Friend.

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

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