Quotes from Dejan Stojanovic

To write good poems is the secret of brevity.

Total knowledge is annihilation Of the desire to see, to touch, to feel The world sensed only through senses And immune to the knowledge without feeling.

Busy with the ugliness of the expensive success We forget the easiness of free beautyLying sad right around the corner, Only an instant removed, Unnoticed and squandered.

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

Since nothing is absolute There is no absolute silence, Only an appearance Of temporary peace.

Pretense cannot sustain blind power.

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

To cut and tighten sentences is the secret of mastery.

A star needs a star.

We traveled long and forgot why poetry was invented.

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

Great poets are great copy editors.

Possible impossibility emerges From an impossible possibility, Or possibly, impossible possibility Blooms from the impossibly possible impossibility.

Everything seems impossible And everything seems possible.

Without pleasure there is no sight or measure.

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

They will smile, as they always do when they plan a major attack late in the night.

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

Although all days are equally long regardless of the season, some days are long not only seasonally but by rewards they offer.

Forget decorated generals, tell me about Private Ryan.

Eyesight for an eagle is what thought is to a man.

Darkness does not age; nothing is always nothing

Art is apotheosis; Often, the complaint of beauty.

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.