Poetry Quotes by Dejan Stojanovic · Page 2

“A poem is its own name and cover.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

Into the day as by dream I swim to the music of nourished meaning.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Christ did not ask or want to be what he was not.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Dust to dust, ashes to ashes. Is that all?

— Dejan Stojanovic

All those big words produce disgust today.

— Dejan Stojanovic

There is a pledge of the big and of the small in the infinite.

— Dejan Stojanovic

“Holy books are an insult to a God with good intentions.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

There are no clear borders, only merging invisible to the sight.

— Dejan Stojanovic

“Now that we are all so smart, we don’t easily find resolutions.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

“In a real poem a sound does not swallow a letter, but a letter swallows a sound.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

“I lose faith in mathematics, logical and rigid. What with those that even zero doesn’t accept?”

— 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

“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

“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

“To jump over centuries In one step is impossible. Jump too high or far, You’ll be way too late.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

“A versifier arranges words and rhymes into verses; a poet arranges verses and rhymes into meanings.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

Sun is a hearthstone, a merry-go-round of extinguished hearthstones.

— Dejan Stojanovic

The light teaches you to convert life into a festive promenade.

— Dejan Stojanovic

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

— Dejan Stojanovic

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

— 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

If emptiness is endless, then everything rests in emptiness.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Faith is a question of eyesight; even the blind can see that.

— Dejan Stojanovic

“They are both spectacular, Life and death.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

Wherever there is somebody else, a war is not far away.

— Dejan Stojanovic

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

— Dejan Stojanovic

We traveled long and forgot why poetry was invented.

— Dejan Stojanovic

“Deceit dispels the boredom of the Absolute.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

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

— Dejan Stojanovic

To cut and tighten sentences is the secret of mastery.

— Dejan Stojanovic

To the knights of faith nobody believes.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Without pleasure there is no sight or measure.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Nature is an outcry, unpolished truth; the art, a euphemism, tamed wilderness.

— Dejan Stojanovic

“Although personal calling I sense, Who am I? even if I am, I don't know.”

— Dejan Stojanovic