Poetry Quotes by Dejan Stojanovic · Page 2

Procreation annihilates eternity.

— Dejan Stojanovic

There is no competition of sounds between a nightingale and a violin.

— Dejan Stojanovic

“A poem does not radiate from the name, but the name emanates from the poem.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

“They grew; they did not talk about growing.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

What we call life is only talk of nature.

— Dejan Stojanovic

“Life into death— Life’s other shape, No rupture, Only crossing.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

“Real geniuses would like that what we think of ourselves is true.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

Its not easy to write a poem about a poem.

— Dejan Stojanovic

“He did not waste time in a vain search for a place in history.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

“Vandals listen only when others are stronger. If vandals are equal or stronger Their word is the last word.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

Truth is hard-hearted and unrelenting, too clear, precise; a lie is much more imaginative.

— 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…

— Dejan Stojanovic

“You ask how it is possible to be your own father and son. You should seek answers, although it is better to…

— Dejan Stojanovic

Unborn eternity does not die; existence is dying and falls asleep in the eternity beyond existence.

— 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

His Highness was always confident in his statements, especially about what he viewed for the first time.

— 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

Get out, but don't cause unneeded accidents.

— Dejan Stojanovic

“The name does not deserve the poem, but the poem deserves the name.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

There is no born lover, there is no born Don Juan, for we are all lovers.

— Dejan Stojanovic

When he is most powerful, nothing does he become.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Without nothing, everything would be nothing.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Existence is the end of endless eternity without a beginning or an end.

— Dejan Stojanovic

To write good poems is the secret of brevity.

— Dejan Stojanovic

“Everything seems impossible And everything seems possible.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

“He awaits himself while walking, out of the icy circle to escape.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

To go where no one else has ever gone before is the secret of heroism.

— Dejan Stojanovic

To expect to be kissed having bad breath is the secret of a fool.

— Dejan Stojanovic

How does one say something new and not retell?

— Dejan Stojanovic

“There are anonymous poems and poets without poems.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

Neither alive nor dead; no one lets up, no one wins.

— Dejan Stojanovic

After Homer and Dante, is a whole century of creating worth one Shakespeare?

— Dejan Stojanovic

“It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

He did not profess to anybody how to reach others without professing.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Without pleasure there is no sight or measure.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Why poetry, you ask? Because of life, I answer.

— Dejan Stojanovic

We traveled long and forgot why poetry was invented.

— Dejan Stojanovic

“A versifier’s poem is born by the sound; a poet’s sound is born by the poem.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

“Deceit dispels the boredom of the Absolute.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

To cut and tighten sentences is the secret of mastery.

— Dejan Stojanovic