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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

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

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

Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry. — Cassandra Clare

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

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

I visited many places,
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

I imagined I was God for a millisecond
And became speechless for a long time. — Dejan Stojanovic

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

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

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

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

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

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

I finally went
where everyone goes
and I realized
I was
never
missing
out. — Meraaqi

All dust is the same dust.
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

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

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

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

There is always the question why
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

The River Mogami has drowned
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

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

Different languages, the same thoughts; servant to thoughts and their masters. — 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

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