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We knock upon silence for an answering music.
— Archibald MacLeish
Poetry surprises us with what we already know.
— John Fuller
You not only are hunted by others, you unknowingly hunt yourself.
— Dejan Stojanovic
When the long bygone Lee Po wanted to say something, he could do it with only a few words.
— Dejan Stojanovic
He tries to find the exit from himself but there is no door.
— Dejan Stojanovic
The most complicated skill is to be simple.
— Dejan Stojanovic
The world is always open, Waiting to be discovered. — Dejan Stojanovic
Death swallows death.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Absolute equals nothingness.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Earth is the source of light.
— Dejan Stojanovic
The crown of literature is poetry. It is the end and aim. It is the sublimest activity od the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty.
— W. Somerset Maugham
You can woo a girl with a poem, but you can't hold onto her with a poem. Not even with a poetry movement.
— Roberto Bolano
Creating means living.
— 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
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
I lose faith in mathematics, logical and rigid. What with those that even zero doesn't accept?
— Dejan Stojanovic
In a myriad of ways you tell one truth.
— Dejan Stojanovic
To go against the grain is the secret of bravery.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Without nothing, everything would be nothing.
— Dejan Stojanovic
In an endless silence even screams sound silent.
— Dejan Stojanovic
My feelings are too loud for words and too shy for the world.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Every thought about death takes a moment of life away.
— Dejan Stojanovic
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
— Dejan Stojanovic
The man is in his work,read it if you want to know about him.
— R.M. Engelhardt
Knighthood lies above eternity; it doesn't live off fame, but rather deeds.
— Dejan Stojanovic
When all is lost, there is still a memory.
— Dejan Stojanovic
We must bringour own light
to the
darkness. — Charles Bukowski
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
When he is most powerful, nothing does he become.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Statesmen are grocers, ambitious clowns.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Senses empower limitations, senses expand vision within borders, senses promote understanding through pleasure.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Oblivion cures the old wounds.
— Dejan Stojanovic
What you gain here, you lose on the other side.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Why poetry, you ask? Because of life, I answer. — Dejan Stojanovic
Christ did not ask or want to be what he was not.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Sound unbound by nature becomes bounded by art.
— Dejan Stojanovic
At home the bookshelves connected heaven and earth.
— Lisel Mueller
Great poets are great copy editors.
— Dejan Stojanovic
If birth is a manifestation of life, death is another.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Reading great works of literature, discovering poetry, and listening to the best composers are all ways that we learn to love the Creator more.
— Jennifer A. Marshall
Without pleasure there is no sight or measure.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Everything that looks too perfect is too perfect to be perfect.
— Dejan Stojanovic
If you are good, they say you are weak.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Wherever I go, I meet myself.
— Dejan Stojanovic
In the biggest and the smallest I sleep but at the same place I stay.
— Dejan Stojanovic
The greatest Americans have not been born yet they are waiting patiently for the past to die.
— Saul Williams
Everyone lives by selling something.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
God is a cloud from which rain fell.
— Dejan Stojanovic
When within yourself you find the road, the right road will open.
— Dejan Stojanovic
From nothing comes everything.
— Dejan Stojanovic
New Rome will be destroyedBy the attacks of new vandals.
God always remains silent. — Dejan Stojanovic
There can be no forced inspiration.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Even if you are alone you wage war with yourself.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Dream by making and make by dreaming.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Even great men bow before the Sun; it melts hubris into humility.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Medicine is my life, but literature is my mistress, and mysteries and poetry are my drugs of choice.
— John A. Vanek
Literature is news which stays news.
— Ezra Pound
You are hurrying to the sweet place, To the nonsense chasing your spirit
And in the nonsense you look for answers. — Dejan Stojanovic
What does infinity mean to you? Are you not infinity and yourself? — Dejan Stojanovic
Education does not define you as a "HUMAN BEING" your actions does.
— Henry Johnson Jr
Here let dead poetry rise once more to life.
— Dante Alighieri
Courage is more important than to be deceived by shallow victory waiting for a delayed defeat.
— Dejan Stojanovic
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.
— Gaston Bachelard
Life is only a flicker of melted ice.
— 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
Will the day tell its secret Before it disappears,
Becomes timeless night. — Dejan Stojanovic
The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart.
— Ryszard Kapuscinski
Istanbul is inspiring because it has its own code of architecture, literature, poetry, music.
— Christian Louboutin
Unborn eternity does not die; existence is dying and falls asleep in the eternity beyond existence.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Romance is the poetry of literature.
— Suzanne Curchod
There is no born lover, There is no born Don Juan,
For we are all lovers. — Dejan Stojanovic
God is busy and has no time for you.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Disease often comes with a smiling face.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Long ago an uncalled rain fell and a called-upon God stayed equally distant.
— 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
There is always the question why And there is always life,
Which doesn't need an answer. — Dejan Stojanovic
There are no winners in real games.
— Dejan Stojanovic
I visited many places, Some of them quite
Exotic and far away,
But I always returned to myself. — Dejan Stojanovic
Deliver thunder, GodIf you choose not to talk. — Dejan Stojanovic
To keep the air fresh among words is the secret of verbal cleanliness.
— Dejan Stojanovic
He knows he will be born again, And start fresh anew. — Dejan Stojanovic
For me, the measure of a poem is the word, not the line.
— John Kinsella
Will I ever see the mountains or am I doomed to roam the flatlands?
— Jessica-Lynn Barbour
It is beautiful to express love and even more beautiful to feel it.
— Dejan Stojanovic
To understand possible means to understand impossible.
— 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 drownedFar and deep
Beneath its surging waves
The flaming sun of summer — Matsuo Basho
Heavenly bodies are nests of invisible birds.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Nobility is not only in forgiveness.
— Dejan Stojanovic
During the last years of Mayakovski's life, when all poetry had ceased to exist ... literature had stopped.
— Boris Pasternak
In The End The Words Are The All And The Nothing.
— R.M. Engelhardt
He thought others were small; that was his greatness.
— Dejan Stojanovic
There is a voice in my head that is only silenced by the scratching of my pen
— Jessica-Lynn Barbour
Serious affairs and history are carefully laid snares for the uninformed.
— Dejan Stojanovic