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Dejan Stojanovic quotes
Even if you are alone you wage war with yourself.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
You not only are hunted by others, you unknowingly hunt yourself.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
From whichever side I start, I think I am in an old place where others have been before me.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
A smiling lie is a whirlwind, easy to enter, but hard to escape.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
The same word we love and hate, leaves in different directions, taking different paths.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
— Dejan Stojanovic
For a game, you don’t need a teacher.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
Different languages, the same thoughts; servant to thoughts and their masters.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
Nature is an outcry, unpolished truth; the art—a euphemism—tamed wilderness.
— Dejan Stojanovic
In the essence of truth lies deceit.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
In a myriad of ways you tell one truth.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Shape
Deliver thunder, GodIf you choose not to talk.
— Dejan Stojanovic, Circling: 1978-1987
I imagined I was God for a millisecond And became speechless for a long time.
— Dejan Stojanovic
God is a cloud from which rain fell.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
Devil and God – two sides of the same face.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Cosmos is God, who whispered the syllable of life.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
God is busy and has no time for you.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
New Rome will be destroyedBy the attacks of new vandals.God always remains silent.
— Dejan Stojanovic, Circling: 1978-1987
When following God, Zero we never find.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
The world is God’s salvation.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
To hide feelings when you are near crying is the secret of dignity.
— Dejan Stojanovic
It is beautiful to express love and even more beautiful to feel it.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Wherever I go, I meet myself.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Shape
I visited many places, Some of them quite Exotic and far away, But I always returned to myself.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Use the wings of the flying Universe, Dream with open eyes; See in darkness.
— Dejan Stojanovic
There is another alphabet, whispering from every leaf, singing from every river, shimmering from every sky.
— Dejan Stojanovic
I am the shore and the ocean, awaiting myself on both sides.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Shape
The most complicated skill is to be simple.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Since there is no real silence, Silence will contain all the sounds, All the words, all the languages, All knowledge, all memory.
— 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
There is no competition of sounds between a nightingale and a violin.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Words rich in meaning can be cheap in sound effects.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Be aware of the high notes, of the blissful faces and their soft messages, and listen for the silent message of a highly decorated gift.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Heavenly bodies are nests of invisible birds.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Creator
To come to nothing through something is the way to outside from both sides.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sign and Its Children
Everything that looks too perfect is too perfect to be perfect.
— Dejan Stojanovic
He knows he will be born again, And start fresh anew.
— Dejan Stojanovic, Circling: 1978-1987
He had an answer to almost everything and he retired at an early age.
— Dejan Stojanovic
We don’t know anything about silent sages, buried knowledge, the eye of the mute poet, serene seers, yet how many talkative destroyers, prophets and ideologues, teachers and beautifiers there are on the other side.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Shape
The night is still waiting.
— Dejan Stojanovic, Circling: 1978-1987
Dream by making and make by dreaming.
— 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
To sense the peace of extinguished passionHappiness in not knowing the ultimate knowledge
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sign and Its Children
Through memory to knowledge on the way to stars that are stepping down to the stuffy rooms of modern bureaucrats, illuminating their ceilings, their horizons where everything is easily resolved by the piles of paper and recipes for how to live, create, run, eat, breathe, learn how to love, how to make love, how to sleep, how to dream, how happiness is achieved under the artificial stars of the new sky that emerged from the bureaucratic rooms of aspiring and impotent minds, unable to love, even though they had all their life to learn what they preach.
— Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian Satire and Aphorisms
Hope without love is hopeless.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
When the star dies, Its eye closes; tired of watching, It flies back to its first bright dream.
— Dejan Stojanovic, Circling: 1978-1987
If birth is a manifestation of life, death is another.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Life into death— Life’s other shape, No rupture, Only crossing.
— Dejan Stojanovic, Circling: 1978-1987
Every thought about death takes a moment of life away.
— Dejan Stojanovic
To hear never-heard sounds, To see never-seen colors and shapes, To try to understand the imperceptible Power pervading the world; To fly and find pure ethereal substances That are not of matter But of that invisible soul pervading reality. To hear another soul and to whisper to another soul; To be a lantern in the darkness Or an umbrella in a stormy day; To feel much more than know. To be the eyes of an eagle, slope of a mountain; To be a wave understanding the influence of the moon; To be a tree and read the memory of the leaves; To be an insignificant pedestrian on the streets Of crazy cities watching, watching, and watching. To be a smile on the face of a woman And shine in her memory As a moment saved without planning.
— Dejan Stojanovic
To the knights of faith nobody believes.
— Dejan Stojanovic, Circling: 1978-1987
I lose faith in mathematics, logical and rigid. What with those that even zero doesn’t accept?
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Shape
A word only writes Its night and ridesIts dream.
— Dejan Stojanovic, Circling: 1978-1987
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible the world has written its own.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
To write good poems is the secret of brevity.
— Dejan Stojanovic
If we were to understand how important it is to say something and say it well, maybe we wouldn’t write a single word, but that would be tragic.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
There can be no forced inspiration.
— Dejan Stojanovic
You don’t know anything, but I know even less.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
Total knowledge is annihilation Of the desire to see, to touch, to feel The world sensed only through senses And immune to the knowledge without feeling.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Omnipotence and omniscience are the end of power and knowledge.
— Dejan Stojanovic
There are too many literati, yet very few are smart; knowledge is acquired far too easily.
— Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian Satire and Aphorisms
Busy with the ugliness of the expensive success We forget the easiness of free beautyLying sad right around the corner, Only an instant removed, Unnoticed and squandered.
— Dejan Stojanovic
You mark and celebrate errors, transforming failures into successes.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
Accidents are not accidents but precise arrivals at the wrong right time.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Without space, there is no time.
— Dejan Stojanovic
He did not waste time in a vain search for a place in history.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
There is only as much space, only as much time, Only as much desire, only as many words, Only as many pages, only as much ink To accept all of us at light-speed Hurrying into the Promised Land Of oblivion that is waiting for us sooner or later.
— Dejan Stojanovic
It is vain futility to analyze the algebra of time.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Creator
It is futile to spend time telling stories about the fleetness of each day.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Creator
Pose your questions to people and you will get countless useless answers.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
All people are enslaved by something.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Some people complain there are too many people on earth, Some people complain about secret societies, Some people accuse others of not being able to wake up early. Almost all people complain about something.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Dreams are our only geography—our native land.
— Dejan Stojanovic
A hidden spark of the dream sleeps In the forest and waits In the celestial spheres of the brain.
— Dejan Stojanovic, Circling: 1978-1987
Two forces create eternity – a fairy tale and a dream from the fairy tale.
— Dejan Stojanovic
A big desire is not enough to meet the expectations of lost dreams.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Into the day as by dream I swim To the music of nourished meaning.
— Dejan Stojanovic, Circling: 1978-1987
You ask how it is possible to be your own father and son. You should seek answers, although it is better to anticipate some, to be the light and dream.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Shape
It is easy to arrange the words in a story born out of a dream; for a story without a dream, a story itself is not enough.
— Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian Satire and Aphorisms
Nothing is made, nothing disappears. The same changes, at the same places, never stopping.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Shape
It is beautiful to talk about beautiful things and even more beautiful to silently gaze at them.
— Dejan Stojanovic
There is something perfect to be found in the imperfect: the law keeps balance through the juxtaposition of beauty, which gains perfection through nurtured imperfection.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Beauty is a cheap word, but beauty remains priceless.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Art is apotheosis; often, the complaint of beauty.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Perfection seems sterile; it is final, no mystery in it; it’s a product of an assembly line.
— Dejan Stojanovic
In trying to be perfect, He perfected the art of anonymity, Became imperceptible And arrived nowhere from nowhere.
— Dejan Stojanovic
We love the imperfect shapes in nature and in the works of art, look for an intentional error as a sign of the golden key and sincerity found in true mastery.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Sound unbound by nature becomes bounded by art.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Serious affairs and history are carefully laid snares for the uninformed.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
Creators of history always play with our impotence and our ignorance.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
History will be erased in the universal purgatory.
— Dejan Stojanovic
What we call life is only talk of nature.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
Since nothing is absolute There is no absolute silence, Only an appearance Of temporary peace.
— Dejan Stojanovic
To transform a grimace into a sound sounds impossible, yet it is possible to transform a vision into music, to go outside an enslaved personality, to become impersonal by transforming into sand, into water, into light.
— Dejan Stojanovic
When he is most powerful, nothing does he become.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sign and Its Children
Pretense cannot sustain blind power.
— Dejan Stojanovic
My feelings are too loud for words and too shy for the world.
— Dejan Stojanovic
The world is always open, Waiting to be discovered.
— Dejan Stojanovic, Circling: 1978-1987
This dwarf still observes the world from his own self-imposed height.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
I enjoy it when the world smiles; the more smiles, the warmer I am.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Shape
The world is a navy in an empty ocean.
— 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
When magic through nerves and reason passes, Imagination, force, and passion will thunder. The portrait of the world is changed.
— Dejan Stojanovic, Circling: 1978-1987
Arrival in the world is really a departure and that, which we call departure, is only a return.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
The world contained in a seed, Determined by its program.
— Dejan Stojanovic, Circling: 1978-1987
Courage is more important than to be deceived by shallow victory waiting for a delayed defeat.
— 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
Creating means living.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Shape
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 livedAnd I am happy about that.
— Dejan Stojanovic
While gazing at myself from yourself, I was beautiful.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Shape
He will understand when it is too late that it is easier to love.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Shape
What you gain here, you lose on the other side.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Shape
Long ago we conquered our passions looking at ourselves in the mirror of eternity.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Shape
In greatness, life and death merge.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Shape
From one bell all the bells toll.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Shape
Long ago an uncalled rain fell and a called-upon God stayed equally distant.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Shape
They are both spectacular, Life and death.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Shape
One hand I extend into myself, the other toward others.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Shape
I travel, always arriving in the same place.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Shape
My mathematics is simple: one plus one = one.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Shape
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
Through everything I have passed but nowhere I have been.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Shape
All dust is the same dust. Temporarily separated To go peacefully And enjoy the eternal nap.
— Dejan Stojanovic, Circling: 1978-1987
And this that you call solitude is in fact a big crowd.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Shape
Life eats life to live.
— Dejan Stojanovic, Circling: 1978-1987
Mathematics doesn’t care about those beyond the numbers.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Shape
Neither alive nor dead; No one lets up, No one wins.
— Dejan Stojanovic, Circling: 1978-1987
He awaits himself while walking, out of the icy circle to escape.
— Dejan Stojanovic, Circling: 1978-1987
Instead of imitating me, you simply loiter.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Shape
To jump over centuries In one step is impossible. Jump too high or far, You’ll be way too late.
— Dejan Stojanovic, Circling: 1978-1987
In the end, the world returns to a grain.
— Dejan Stojanovic, Circling: 1978-1987
Death swallows death.
— Dejan Stojanovic, Circling: 1978-1987
Vandals listen only when others are stronger.If vandals are equal or strongerTheir word is the last word.
— Dejan Stojanovic, Circling: 1978-1987
In the biggest and the smallest I sleep but at the same place I stay.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Shape
Every star was once darker than the night, before it awoke.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sign and Its Children
If emptiness is empty, how can something be borne or awaken from it?
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sign and Its Children
Nothing is part of everything.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sign and Its Children
What does infinity mean to you? Are you not infinity and yourself?
— Dejan Stojanovic, Circling: 1978-1987
Will the day tell its secret Before it disappears, Becomes timeless night.
— Dejan Stojanovic, Circling: 1978-1987
From what you didn’t say, lies that you did say.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Creator
I can see myself before myself—A being through dark scenery.
— Dejan Stojanovic, Circling: 1978-1987
The farther away, the closer the home becomes.
— Dejan Stojanovic, Circling: 1978-1987
There is nobody to wake up eternal seekers.
— Dejan Stojanovic, Circling: 1978-1987
If emptiness is endless, then everything rests in emptiness.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sign and Its Children
When everything hurries everywhere, nothing goes anywhere.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sign and Its Children
You are hurrying to the sweet place, To the nonsense chasing your spirit And in the nonsense you look for answers.
— Dejan Stojanovic, Circling: 1978-1987
There are no clear borders, Only merging invisible to the sight.
— Dejan Stojanovic, Circling: 1978-1987
The eyesight for an eagle is what thought is to a man.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Creator
From everything, nothing looks to nothing.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sign and Its Children
Digressions are part of harmony, deviations too.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sign and Its Children
There is a pledge of the big and of the small in the infinite.
— Dejan Stojanovic, Circling: 1978-1987
Without nothing, everything would be nothing.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sign and Its Children
From nothing comes everything.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sign and Its Children
Earth is the source of light.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sign and Its Children
With your goal you make the one.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Creator
Although personal calling I sense, Who am I? even if I am, I don’t know.
— Dejan Stojanovic, Circling: 1978-1987
When within yourself you find the road, the right road will open.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Creator
To leave out beautiful sunsets is the secret of good taste.
— Dejan Stojanovic
To keep the air fresh among words is the secret of verbal cleanliness.
— Dejan Stojanovic
In every sound, the hidden silence sleeps.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Creator
To say more while saying less is the secret of being simple.
— Dejan Stojanovic
To expect to be kissed having bad breath is the secret of a fool.
— Dejan Stojanovic
No reason for a feverish rush For we will all arrive in the same place At the right time. Justice will be served. There will be no better or worse, No big and small, no rewards, no punishment, No guilt, no judges, no hierarchies; Only silent equality.
— Dejan Stojanovic
When I want to be reminded of stupidity, especially my own, I turn on the TV.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Based on the law of probability Everything is possible because The sheer existence of possibility Confirms the existence Of impossibility.
— Dejan Stojanovic
To cut and tighten sentences is the secret of mastery.
— Dejan Stojanovic
In an endless silence even screams sound silent.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Creator
To understand possible means to understand impossible.
— Dejan Stojanovic
To not say all that can be said is the secret of discipline and economy.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Unjustified ambition kills value, Kills someone else’s desire to fly, Cuts their wings, sucks their air.If there is nothing else, it eats its own life.
— Dejan Stojanovic
A star needs a star.
— Dejan Stojanovic
To go against the grain is the secret of bravery.
— Dejan Stojanovic
We traveled long and forgot why poetry was invented.
— Dejan Stojanovic
To go where no one else has ever gone before is the secret of heroism.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Those who hate rain hate life.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Nothing reminds us of an awakening more than rain.
— Dejan Stojanovic
When all is lost, there is still a memory.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Possible is more a matter of attitude, A matter of decision, to choose Among the impossible possibilities, When one sound opportunity Becomes a possible solution.
— 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
To accomplish the perfect perfection, a little imperfection helps.
— Dejan Stojanovic
I fly through memory to find a newborn love.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Why poetry, you ask? Because of life, I answer.
— Dejan Stojanovic
There is always the question why And there is always life, Which doesn’t need an answer.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Oblivion cures the old wounds.
— Dejan Stojanovic
To dream on occasion is not dreaming, To love on occasion is not love.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Senses empower limitations, senses expand vision within borders, senses promote understanding through pleasure.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Great poets are great copy editors.
— 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
Possible impossibility emerges From an impossible possibility, Or possibly, impossible possibility Blooms from the impossibly possible impossibility.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Everything seems impossible And everything seems possible.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Without pleasure there is no sight or measure.
— Dejan Stojanovic
There is no born lover, There is no born Don Juan, For we are all lovers.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Too often, feelings arrive too soon, waiting for thoughts that often come too late.
— Dejan Stojanovic
He tries to find the exit from himself but there is no door.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Tell me something only you know and make a new friend.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Before the first before and after the last after, there is night waiting.
— 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
Love is almost never simple.
— Dejan Stojanovic
A word into the silence thrown always finds its echo somewhere where silence opens hidden lexicons.
— Dejan Stojanovic
They will smile, as they always do when they plan a major attack late in the night.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Dust to dust, ashes to ashes. Is that all?
— 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
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
Nobility is not only in forgiveness.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
Forget decorated generals, tell me about Private Ryan.
— Dejan Stojanovic
For a moment at least, be a smile on someone else’s face.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
Strangers are endearing because you don’t know them yet.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
They blossomed, they did not talk about blossoming.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
There are no winners in real games.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
Don’t pay attention to those who offer too much.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
It is easy to see the glow but hard to recognize the awakening of silence.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
The game itself is bigger than the winning.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
If you are good, they say you are weak.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
Beyond all vanities, fights, and desires, omnipotent silence lies.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
We like to admit to only that which already glows, although it is nobler to support brightness before it glows, not afterwards.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
If what we think of ourselves were true, the planet would overflow with geniuses.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
The light teaches you to convert life into a festive promenade.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
Christ did not ask or want to be what he was not.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
Is it possible to write a poem or are these words just screams of outlaws exiled to the desert?
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
Disease often comes with a smiling face.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
All those big words produce disgust today.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
Statesmen are grocers, ambitious clowns.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
Your head is a lit chamber.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
Either you will be you or you will not be at all.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
Whatever others may say, they say it to deceive and comfort themselves, not help you.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
A breeze, a forgotten summer, a smile, all can fit into a storefront window.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
We hear only our own voices, still echoes returning to our emptiness.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
The deeper thought is, the taller it becomes.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
Either all lights are turned off or one inner light is missing.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
How many unuttered words died in the heads of those for whom a word was too expensive.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
We forget old stories, but those stories remain the same.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
Do not look too far for you will see nothing.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
Everybody talks, but there is no conversation.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
In the lie of truth lies the truth.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
We measure everything by ourselves with almost a necessary conceit.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
How alive is thought, invisible, yet without thought there is no sight.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
We built tall buildings, but we have not become any taller.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
Teaching others, he corrected himself.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
We need knew knights, but without swords.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
Truth is hard-hearted and unrelenting, too clear, precise; a lie is much more imaginative.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
How does one say something new and not retell?
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
After Homer and Dante, is a whole century of creating worth one Shakespeare?
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
His Highness was always confident in his statements, especially about what he viewed for the first time.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
Now that we are all so smart, we don’t easily find resolutions.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
Holy books are an insult to a God with good intentions.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
He did not profess to anybody how to reach others without professing.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
Wherever there is somebody else, a war is not far away.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
Say No! Accept the burdens of revenge.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
If you could have walked on the planet before humans lived here, maybe the Ivory Coast would have seemed more beautiful than La Côte d’Azur.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
When the long bygone Lee Po wanted to say something, he could do it with only a few words.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
Infinity is the end. End without infinity is but a new beginning.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
Knighthood lies above eternity; it doesn’t live off fame, but rather deeds.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
Life is only a flicker of melted ice.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
Get close to grass and you’ll see a star.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
Eternity is a glorious word, but eternity is ice.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
Existence is the end of endless eternity without a beginning or an end.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
Universe is the Sun watching its own self.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
Sunbathe from within.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
Absolute equals nothingness.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Stars are only the rain of the Absolute.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
Sun is a hearthstone, a merry-go-round of extinguished hearthstones.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
Real geniuses would like that what we think of ourselves is true.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Deceit dispels the boredom of the Absolute.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
Procreation annihilates eternity.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
The universe is God’s son.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
Through words to the meaning of thoughts with no words.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
Absolute is a game with only one player where Absolute forgets itself so it would have a reason to fulfill the motion while returning.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
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, Serbian Satire and Aphorisms
We don’t know who was tricked by whom. Did the writer deceive the word, or did the word deceive the writer?
— Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian Satire and Aphorisms
A number is still very accurate, but its role is changed.In the changed role this number enriches the silence.
— Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian Satire and Aphorisms
In its proper role, a number counts the missing words.
— Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian Satire and Aphorisms
A word is not filling in the gaps, but the fertilization of silence.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Unwritten words grow out of silence.
— Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian Satire and Aphorisms
We dream and fight with demons real and imagined.
— Dejan Stojanovic
We only live if we dream.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Everything and nothing are the same in the Absolute.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
Burning the witch Giordano Bruno is one more wound inflicted on Christ’s body.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
We grow from our dreams.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Many writers were better before they became famous.
— Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian Satire and Aphorisms
There are literary works that speak for themselves and there are writers who boast through work.
— Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian Satire and Aphorisms
Names do not write poems nor do they create work.
— Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian Satire and Aphorisms
Anyone who writes can be called a writer because they write.
— Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian Satire and Aphorisms
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, Serbian Satire and Aphorisms
What are all these writers fighting for? For their own victory or for the victory of their profession?
— Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian Satire and Aphorisms
A poem that is itself a name does not yearn for the name of its creator, but shines from its name alone.
— Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian Satire and Aphorisms
A poem does not radiate from the name, but the name emanates from the poem.
— Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian Satire and Aphorisms
The name does not deserve the poem, but the poem deserves the name.
— Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian Satire and Aphorisms
In a real poem a sound does not swallow a letter, but a letter swallows a sound.
— Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian Satire and Aphorisms
An unrewarded value is more valuable than a reward with no value.
— Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian Satire and Aphorisms
Knowing how to dream is more important than the story, because the story tells itself.
— Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian Satire and Aphorisms
The length of novels, poems and stories, is measured by the number of missing words; a thousand pages become one, one becomes a thousand.
— Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian Satire and Aphorisms
A well paid word deceives them. And what kind of a word is a word that has a price, high or low, which is adjusted to the price of fame, and how, long ago, when it was little appreciated, was it more valuable than it is today with a big price?
— Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian Satire and Aphorisms
Everything passes through the eyes of top bureaucrats who closely watch to ensure that no intruder can enter their ranks and disrupt the order and arrangement of values in which everything is predetermined and where everyone knows their place, everyone’s potential, talent and position in history.
— Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian Satire and Aphorisms
They forget that love is not a science but an inherent state of mind; they forget that sex is practiced by animals without textbooks and that it is not such a secret that requires a complete science, courses and special training. And so impotent, with artificial stars on the ceilings of their rooms, they become the main teachers on the way to the stars.
— Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian Satire and Aphorisms
There are anonymous poems and poets without poems.
— Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian Satire and Aphorisms
Names sound nice because no one peeks behind the cover to see the sad face of a poem crying for meaning, while the name of the creator proudly smiles from the title.
— Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian Satire and Aphorisms
A poem is its own name and cover.
— Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian Satire and Aphorisms
Good is not always good.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Creator
The purpose of life is life.
— Dejan Stojanovic
There are those who speak and those who dream.
— Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian Satire and Aphorisms
Neruda had his first dream, First meeting with the Moon and the Sun In sunny La Mancha, hiding in his heart, Where he learned how to sing like a nightingale.
— 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, Serbian Satire and Aphorisms
Is my victory real, does the winner adorned with a laurel wreath ask this question? Do I deserve victory or did I steal it from someone who is more worthy of victory?
— Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian Satire and Aphorisms
Bureaucracy is a huge beast; deeply rooted, it exists even among artists; it’s an almost losing battle against it.
— Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian Satire and Aphorisms
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, Serbian Satire and Aphorisms
Marquez was not born in Colombia.He was born in Macondo, And his Macondo is his La Mancha.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Quixote shines from Lorca and Picasso, From Dalí and El Greco, From the gloomy ‘View of Toledo.’ He was born before Cervantes.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Almost as a rule, political dissidents were writers.
— Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian Satire and Aphorisms
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
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