although he stands out with his garip period poems, orhan veli had eschewed writing poetry of a "single type". kanık had been renewing himself and searching without cease throughout his career in literature, a long adventure of poetry in a short life, that consists of different stages. oktay rıfat has explained this by saying: "orhan lived in his very short lifetime an adventure in poetry equal to a few generations of french poets. turkish poetry became head to head with european poetry thanks to his pen.", and: "a transformation which several generations back to back could maybe achieve, he completed in a few years."