"Biographies of the period speak with praise of Yavuz Sultan Selim, who possessed literary taste and aesthetic intelligence. Having a good knowledge of Persian and poetry, the poet was clearly influenced by Iranian poets such as Saadi, Jami, Salman, Hafiz, and Kamal al-Din Isfahani. Among the poets of the Ottoman realm, artists such as Kemalpaşazade, Tacizade Cafer Çelebi, Müeyyedzade, Revanî, Sürurî, and Halimî were those whom he appreciated and welcomed into his circles of conversation.

Sultan Selim, who mainly addressed love in his poems, takes pleasure in the pain of love, much like Fuzuli. He is a patient of sorrow who rejects all medicine. When his poems are examined, it is seen that this morbid feeling of love permeates almost his entire Divan.

In his religious and mystical poems, his love-laden reproaches and supplications to God also draw attention. In almost all of his poems, rather than as a powerful sovereign, he appears before us as a poet of sorrow who is helpless, wretched, and entranced before his beloved, a slave to the beloved, inclined to none other than God, and burning with the pain of love.

In his Persian Divan, alongside mostly love poems, there are also manly, heroic poems written with the air of a sovereign, as well as poems about daily events and the region in which he lived."