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Beyond all vanities, fights, and desires, omnipotent silence lies.
— Dejan Stojanovic
These capacities for randomness may have been amplified into human creativity through sexual and social selection.
— Geoffrey Miller
Before the first before and after the last after, there is night waiting.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Artistic simplicity is more complex than artistic complexity for it arises via the simplification of the latter and against its backdrop or system.
— Yuri Lotman
Poetry is not a mere expression of a poet's self, but an enchantment, a spell of the muse, the inspiration. Poetry is thus magic and magic is poetry.
— Shilpa Sandesh
Every star was once darker than the night, before it awoke.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Get close to grass and you'll see a star.
— Dejan Stojanovic
There is a line of poetry, a sentence in a fable, a word in an essay, by which my existence is justified; find that line, and immortality is assured.
— Alberto Manguel
If you can change the way you think in time you will notice a change in your heart and also a change in your life and the way you see things.
— The Prolific Penman
Poetry is a tool for writers to create literature in different forms of expression and messages.
— Vanessa M Chattman
Calico Kitty
My calico kitty
was painted and primed
she could prowl
the night away ~
without spending a dime... — Muse
My calico kitty
was painted and primed
she could prowl
the night away ~
without spending a dime... — Muse
Poetry is the most concentrated form of literature; it is the most emotionalized and powerful way in which thought can be presented ...
— Amy Lowell
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
In trying to be perfect,
He perfected the art of anonymity,
Became imperceptible
And arrived nowhere from nowhere. — Dejan Stojanovic
He perfected the art of anonymity,
Became imperceptible
And arrived nowhere from nowhere. — Dejan Stojanovic
Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent
— Victor Hugo
One way or another, all the poets of the thirties and forties reacted to Auden, either by rejecting him or trying to absorb him.
— Clive James
American poetry is always about defining oneself individually,claiming one's right to be different and often to break taboos.
— Diane Wakoski
When I arrived at Columbia, I gave up acting and became interested in all things French. French poetry, French history, French literature.
— Joseph Gordon-Levitt
The world cannot be translated;
It can only be dreamed of and touched. — Dejan Stojanovic
It can only be dreamed of and touched. — 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
Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates.
— Franz Grillparzer
Long ago an uncalled rain fell and a called-upon God stayed equally distant.
— Dejan Stojanovic
When he is most powerful, nothing does he become.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Literature, especially poetry, and lyric poetry most of all, is a kind of family joke, with little or no value outside its own language-group.
— George Orwell
In the great green room, there was a telephone
And a red balloon
And a picture of a cat jumping over the moon ... — Margaret Wise Brown
And a red balloon
And a picture of a cat jumping over the moon ... — Margaret Wise Brown
I visited many places,
Some of them quite
Exotic and far away,
But I always returned to myself. — Dejan Stojanovic
Some of them quite
Exotic and far away,
But I always returned to myself. — Dejan Stojanovic
I am no longer a writer. Just an emotion. An emotion that is unable to stay within its own body, and is therefore, trying to make its way into yours.
— Zaeema J. Hussain
If you can't focus then how do you expect to make your dreams come true?
— The Prolific Penman
He knows he will be born again,
And start fresh anew. — Dejan Stojanovic
And start fresh anew. — Dejan Stojanovic
Omnipotence and omniscience are the end of power and knowledge.
— Dejan Stojanovic
From nothing comes everything.
— Dejan Stojanovic
I liked painting and drawing, and I liked humanities mainly - poetry, literature - this speculative attitude toward life.
— Rafael Moneo
If emptiness is empty, how can something be borne or awaken from it?
— Dejan Stojanovic
Digressions are part of harmony, deviations too.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Poetry should describe itself, and always be simultaneously poetry and the poetry of poetry.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
In the biggest and the smallest I sleep but at the same place I stay.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Poetry is a serious business; literature is the apparatus through which the world tries to keep intact its important ideas and feelings.
— Mary Oliver
Pose your questions to people and you will get countless useless answers.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Real poetry is art at its purest sense. It is never a commodity, but a breath of eternity.
— Subhan Zein
A song rises up from the belly of my past
and rocks me in the bosom of buried memories. — Brenda Sutton Rose
and rocks me in the bosom of buried memories. — Brenda Sutton Rose
To not say all that can be said is the secret of discipline and economy.
— Dejan Stojanovic
A word only writes
Its night and rides
Its dream. — Dejan Stojanovic
Its night and rides
Its dream. — Dejan Stojanovic
I do not write for the public. You are my public and I hope to convert you.
— Gerard Manley Hopkins
There is no competition of sounds between a nightingale and a violin.
— Dejan Stojanovic
A tough life needs a tough language - and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers - a language powerful enough to say how it is.
— Jeanette Winterson
Everything seems impossible
And everything seems possible. — Dejan Stojanovic
And everything seems possible. — Dejan Stojanovic
I lose faith in mathematics, logical and rigid. What with those that even zero doesn't accept?
— Dejan Stojanovic
In greatness, life and death merge.
— Dejan Stojanovic
To cut and tighten sentences is the secret of mastery.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Ultimately I have learned more about poetry, from music and magic than from literature.
— James Broughton
Without nothing, everything would be nothing.
— Dejan Stojanovic
My feelings are too loud for words and too shy for the world.
— Dejan Stojanovic
They are both spectacular,
Life and death. — Dejan Stojanovic
Life and death. — Dejan Stojanovic
What does infinity mean to you?
Are you not infinity and yourself? — Dejan Stojanovic
Are you not infinity and yourself? — Dejan Stojanovic
All dust is the same dust.
Temporarily separated
To go peacefully
And enjoy the eternal nap. — Dejan Stojanovic
Temporarily separated
To go peacefully
And enjoy the eternal nap. — Dejan Stojanovic
And this that you call solitude is in fact a big crowd.
— Dejan Stojanovic
In general, in poetry and literature, I am among those people who believe that too much is indispensable.
— Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Creators of history always play with our impotence and our ignorance.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Whatever others may say, they say it to deceive and comfort themselves, not help you.
— Dejan Stojanovic
There is a pledge of the big and of the small in the infinite.
— Dejan Stojanovic
A hidden spark of the dream sleeps
In the forest and waits
In the celestial spheres of the brain. — Dejan Stojanovic
In the forest and waits
In the celestial spheres of the brain. — Dejan Stojanovic
Poetry is the coronation of literature, and a majestic form of writing.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann
From everything, nothing looks to nothing.
— Dejan Stojanovic
You are hurrying to the sweet place,
To the nonsense chasing your spirit
And in the nonsense you look for answers. — Dejan Stojanovic
To the nonsense chasing your spirit
And in the nonsense you look for answers. — Dejan Stojanovic
Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.
— Juan Ramon Jimenez
The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart.
— Ryszard Kapuscinski
After Homer and Dante, is a whole century of creating worth one Shakespeare?
— Dejan Stojanovic
If emptiness is endless, then everything rests in emptiness.
— Dejan Stojanovic
How does one say something new and not retell?
— Dejan Stojanovic
Unborn eternity does not die; existence is dying and falls asleep in the eternity beyond existence.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Friday night's alright for fighting
Saturday, Sunday, Monday too
Every night is a night of fighting
With family and friends like you — Jessica-Lynn Barbour
Saturday, Sunday, Monday too
Every night is a night of fighting
With family and friends like you — Jessica-Lynn Barbour
God is busy and has no time for you.
— Dejan Stojanovic
..Breaking yet budding,
dying yet living - standing
amongst ruins and rage,
reaching for possibilities
playing hard to get. — Meraaqi
dying yet living - standing
amongst ruins and rage,
reaching for possibilities
playing hard to get. — Meraaqi
There is always the question why
And there is always life,
Which doesn't need an answer. — Dejan Stojanovic
And there is always life,
Which doesn't need an answer. — Dejan Stojanovic
To come to nothing through something is the way to outside from both sides.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Nothing is part of everything.
— Dejan Stojanovic
It is beautiful to express love and even more beautiful to feel it.
— 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
You at least have a chance
Not to outsmart,
But be on a par with yourself
And that is worth trying. — Dejan Stojanovic
The River Mogami has drowned
Far and deep
Beneath its surging waves
The flaming sun of summer — Matsuo Basho
Far and deep
Beneath its surging waves
The flaming sun of summer — Matsuo Basho
Folly, error, sin, avarice
Occupy our minds and labor our bodies,
And we feed our pleasant remorse
As beggars nourish their vermin. — Charles Baudelaire
Occupy our minds and labor our bodies,
And we feed our pleasant remorse
As beggars nourish their vermin. — Charles Baudelaire
He had an answer to almost everything and he retired at an early age.
— Dejan Stojanovic
We traveled long and forgot why poetry was invented.
— Dejan Stojanovic
In The End The Words Are The All And The Nothing.
— R.M. Engelhardt
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
I am the shore and the ocean, awaiting myself on both sides.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Tell me something only you know and make a new friend.
— Dejan Stojanovic
I feel the written word, poetry and literature is just one of the most beautiful things that human beings do. So we have to fight for it.
— Helen Mirren
Serious affairs and history are carefully laid snares for the uninformed.
— Dejan Stojanovic
The same word we love and hate, leaves in different directions, taking different paths.
— Dejan Stojanovic
I am constantly torn between the will to be seen and still hidden so god damn well,
a contradiction I never figured out. — Charlotte Eriksson
a contradiction I never figured out. — Charlotte Eriksson
Dream by making and make by dreaming.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Pay attention, and use your imagination.
— R.M. Engelhardt
Medicine is my life, but literature is my mistress, and mysteries and poetry are my drugs of choice.
— John A. Vanek
It is beautiful to talk about beautiful things and even more beautiful to silently gaze at them.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Poetry depends on being simultaneously opaque and transparent. It can't be only one or the other. The pebble and the pool.
— Peter J. Daniels
The world is God's salvation.
— Dejan Stojanovic