Dejan Stojanovic Quotes

From nothing comes everything. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

I travel, always arriving in the same place. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

In a real poem a sound does not swallow a letter, but a letter swallows a sound. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

A versifier passes through the sound; sounds go through a poet. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

If you are only what you are,
You at least have a chance
Not to outsmart,
But be on a par with yourself
And that is worth trying. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

Entering a cell, penetrating deep as a flying saucer to find a new galaxy would be an honorable task for a new scientist interested more in the inner state of the soul than in outer space. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

There is no competition of sounds between a nightingale and a violin. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

God is a cloud from which rain fell. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

We like to admit to only that which already glows, although it is nobler to support brightness before it glows, not afterwards. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

From whichever side I start, I think I am in an old place where others have been before me. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

There is a moonlight note in the Moonlight Sonata; there is a thunder note in an angry sky. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

Burning the witch Giordano Bruno is one more wound inflicted on Christ's body. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

Oblivion cures the old wounds. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

There are countless circles of hell; believers never penetrate the ninth circle. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

It is not important what happens where;
Where we fall or rise,
What we conquer or lose,
How big or small we are. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

What you gain here, you lose on the other side. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

Eternity is a glorious word, but eternity is ice. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

I am the shore and the ocean, awaiting myself on both sides. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

This dwarf still observes the world from his own self-imposed height. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

The universe is God's son. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

He knows he will be born again,
And start fresh anew. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

To a versifier, sounds are the means and the aim; a poet travels toward the aim using sounds. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

Everybody talks, but there is no conversation. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

Long ago an uncalled rain fell and a called-upon God stayed equally distant. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

Everything is much easier in the half-blind and half-deaf world of modern giants that seduce processions of the blind into the world of great emptiness. In their sky the stars shine and their names live in the parallel and independently of their work. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

Many are so used to laurels and presume that they are real winners. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

Since nothing is absolute
There is no absolute silence,
Only an appearance
Of temporary peace. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

Pose your questions to people and you will get countless useless answers. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

What are all these writers fighting for? For their own victory or for the victory of their profession? ~ Dejan Stojanovic

Hope without love is hopeless. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

Those who would like to become writers attend courses on writing poetry and prose and analyze their own work and that of other writers in development. Teachers teach them that talent is not required and that anyone, who wants to be a writer, can do it if they only master the technique of writing and master the formulas of the genre that they choose. With a little brain storming ideas written on cards, as well as designs and plans on the table, one can even write a novel in a month. There is no secret; the whole secret is in the technique, a little research, and the rest is solved by form, according to a formula, in which it is all nicely wrapped up and packaged.
And so, a bestseller is born. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

In greatness, life and death merge. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

It is not possible to express the most precious insights,
To see all that craves to be seen,
To visit even the closest neighbors in the universe,
To learn all that needs to be learned,
To live without dying,
And I am sad about it.
But I lived
And I am happy about that. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

To expect to be kissed having bad breath is the secret of a fool. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

Procreation annihilates eternity. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

He will understand when it is too late that it is easier to love. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

When magic through nerves and reason passes, Imagination, force, and passion will thunder. The portrait of the world is changed. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

They read a little bit, write a little, and especially agree with themselves on important moves, important information, important awards, important writers that they plan to enthrone forever in history through a variety of memberships and numerous prizes awarded under the influence of top bureaucrats who know everything, not only about literature, but also about secret conspiracies, the Masons that lurk in every corner to crucify someone, steal someone's soul and sell it to an unknown devil, about whom only the chief bureaucrat possesses secret knowledge that he doesn't share; about history, ghosts, missing continents; about who said what to whom in confidence. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

Earth is the source of light. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

We will go far away, to nowhere, to conquer, to fertilize until we become tired. Then we will stop and there will be our home. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

When within yourself you find the road, the right road will open. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

If birth is a manifestation of life, death is another. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

Fly without wings;
Dream with open eyes;
See in darkness. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

Our desire to say more grows bigger and what to say about it, except that saying is not always about saying, growing is not always about growing. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

We only live if we dream. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

Without nothing, everything would be nothing. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

Omnipotence and omniscience are the end of power and knowledge. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

A smiling lie is a whirlwind, easy to enter, but hard to escape. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

What does infinity mean to you?
Are you not infinity and yourself? ~ Dejan Stojanovic

There is always the question why
And there is always life,
Which doesn't need an answer. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

Pretense cannot sustain blind power. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

Disease often comes with a smiling face. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

There is a pledge of the big and of the small in the infinite. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

Say No! Accept the burdens of revenge. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

Although personal calling I sense,
Who am I? even if I am,
I don't know. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

To come to nothing through something is the way to outside from both sides. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

Those in Argentina, Mexico and Peru,
Colombia and the Caribbean
Bear La Mancha and Quixote in their hearts
For he is an ultimate and overlooked Don Juan. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

Although all days are equally long regardless of the season, some days are long not only seasonally but by rewards they offer. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

The same word we love and hate, leaves in different directions, taking different paths. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

Nothing is made, nothing disappears. The same changes, at the same places, never stopping. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

If an ancient man saw planes two thousand years ago
He would've thought they were birds
Or angels from another world
Or messengers from other planets. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

A big desire is not enough to meet the expectations of lost dreams. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

Without space, there is no time. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

Don Quixote is not an imaginary person; he is as real as Alexander the Great. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

We grow from our dreams. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

Art is apotheosis; often, the complaint of beauty. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

Too often, feelings arrive too soon, waiting for thoughts that often come too late. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

There is another alphabet, whispering from every leaf, singing from every river, shimmering from every sky. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

The world cannot be translated;
It can only be dreamed of and touched. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

It is futile to spend time telling stories about the fleetness of each day. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

Nothing is inanimate; what is the rest is our interpretation. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

History will be erased in the universal purgatory. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

A word was more valuable to them when they were not sure of its value. Since they became famous, their word has been more expensive but its value is less. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

When the long bygone Lee Po wanted to say something, he could do it with only a few words. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

Instead of imitating me, you simply loiter. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

In the essence of truth lies deceit. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

Don Quixote is not just Don Quixote;
La Mancha is not just geography;
It is our personal territory
Terra Nostra. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

How does one say something new and not retell? ~ Dejan Stojanovic

The world is always open,
Waiting to be discovered. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

My feelings are too loud for words and too shy for the world. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

The world is a navy in an empty ocean. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

I can see myself before myself
A being through dark scenery. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

Dreams are our only geography - our native land. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

A versifier arranges sounds; a poet arranges meaning in the sounds. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

Darkness does not age; nothing is always nothing ~ Dejan Stojanovic

Most often, adorned winners haven't worked for posterity but for the laurel wreaths and real winners don't care about adorned victories. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

To go against the grain is the secret of bravery. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

To risk life to save a smile on a face of a woman or a child is the secret of chivalry. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

Every man needs his Siren
To check his courage and strength
When he hears her song
In his travels through the unknown. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

When there is noise and crowds, there is trouble;
When everything is silent and perfect,
There is just perfection and nothing
To fill the air. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

How many unuttered words died in the heads of those for whom a word was too expensive. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

From everything, nothing looks to nothing. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

Life into death
Life's other shape,
No rupture,
Only crossing. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

I enjoy it when the world smiles; the more smiles, the warmer I am. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

In the lie of truth lies the truth. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

And this that you call solitude is in fact a big crowd. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

Busy with the expensive success we forget the free beauty. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

Now that we are all so smart, we don't easily find resolutions. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

Trying too hard to be too good, even when trying to be bad, is too good for the bad, too bad for the good. ~ Dejan Stojanovic