Poetry Quotes by Dejan Stojanovic

A star needs a star.

— Dejan Stojanovic

“Wherever I go, I meet myself.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

Nobility is not only in forgiveness.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Procreation annihilates eternity.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Earth is the source of light.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Your head is a lit chamber.

— Dejan Stojanovic

The universe is God's son.

— Dejan Stojanovic

“Sunbathe from within.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

He confided his deepest secret to you; be always wary of his secret.

— Dejan Stojanovic

“A versifier arranges sounds; a poet arranges meaning in the sounds.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

“Names do not write poems nor do they create work.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

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

— Dejan Stojanovic

If birth is a manifestation of life, death is another.

— Dejan Stojanovic

He had an answer to almost everything and he retired at an early age.

— Dejan Stojanovic

The world is a fairy tale; we are its guardians.

— Dejan Stojanovic

“He knows he will be born again, And start fresh anew.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

“Burning the witch Giordano Bruno is one more wound inflicted on Christ’s body.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

“To a versifier, sounds are the means and the aim; a poet travels toward the aim using sounds.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

Total knowledge is annihilation of the desire to see, to touch, to feel the world sensed only through senses and immune to…

— Dejan Stojanovic

“The length of novels, poems and stories, is measured by the number of missing words; a thousand pages become one, one becomes…

— 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…

— Dejan Stojanovic

“If you could have walked on the planet before humans lived here, maybe the Ivory Coast would have seemed more beautiful than…

— Dejan Stojanovic

Absolute is a game with only one player where Absolute forgets itself so it would have a reason to fulfill the motion…

— Dejan Stojanovic

“New Rome will be destroyed By the attacks of new vandals. God always remains silent.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

To transform a grimace into a sound sounds impossible, yet it is possible to transform a vision into music, to go outside…

— 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,…

— Dejan Stojanovic

“There is something perfect to be found in the imperfect: the law keeps balance through the juxtaposition of beauty, which gains perfection…

— Dejan Stojanovic

There is only as much space, only as much time, only as much desire, only as many words, only as many pages,…

— Dejan Stojanovic

“Names sound nice because no one peeks behind the cover to see the sad face of a poem crying for meaning, while…

— 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…

— Dejan Stojanovic

Pretense cannot sustain blind power.

— Dejan Stojanovic

From nothing comes everything.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Absolute equals nothingness.

— Dejan Stojanovic

The world is God’s salvation.

— Dejan Stojanovic

In a myriad of ways you tell one truth.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Great poets are great copy editors.

— Dejan Stojanovic

“A poem is its own name and cover.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

“In the lie of truth lies the truth.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

Good is not always good.

— Dejan Stojanovic

The night is still waiting.

— Dejan Stojanovic