Dejan Stojanovic Quotes
born 1959 Serbia
Dejan Stojanović (born 11 March 1959) is a Serbian-American poet, writer, essayist, philosopher, businessman, and former journalist.
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Dejan Stojanović: The world is a fairy tale; we are its guardians.
Dejan Stojanović: In the end, the world returns to a grain.
Dejan Stojanović: In every sound sleeps the silence.
It is beautiful to talk about beautiful things and even more beautiful to silently gaze at them.
Is it possible to write a poem or are these words just screams of outlaws exiled to the desert?
The Sun Watches the Sun (1999)
Courage is more important than to be deceived by shallow victory waiting for a delayed defeat.
Perfection seems sterile; it is final, no mystery in it; it's a product of an assembly line.
There is a moonlight note in the Moonlight Sonata; there is a thunder note in an angry sky.
How many unuttered words died in the heads of those for whom a word was too expensive.
The Sun Watches the Sun (1999)
Through a forest of challenges, thought moves and squirms, resisting beguilements; if it endures, it emerges pure.
The Creator (2000)
Too often, feelings arrive too soon, waiting for thoughts that often come too late.
Long ago an uncalled rain fell
And a called-upon God stayed equally distant.
The Shape (2000)
Before the first before and after the last after, there is night waiting.
There is no born lover, there is no born Don Juan, for we are all lovers.
To not say all that can be said is the secret of discipline and economy.
To keep the air fresh among words is the secret of verbal cleanliness.
To go where no one else has ever gone before is the secret of heroism.
There is no competition of sounds between a nightingale and a violin.
A big desire is not enough to meet the expectations of lost dreams.
To hide feelings when you are near crying is the secret of dignity.