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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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When all is lost, there is still a memory.

We need knew knights, but without swords.

The Sun Watches the Sun (1999)

Fly without wings; dream with open eyes.

Possible is more a matter of attitude, a matter of decision, to choose among the impossible possibilities, when one sound opportunity becomes a possible solution.

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.

Dejan Stojanović: The farther away, the closer the home becomes.

Dejan Stojanović: Everybody talks, but there is no conversation.

I visited many places, some of them quite exotic and far away, but I always returned to myself.

Long ago we conquered our passions
Looking at ourselves in the mirror of eternity.

The Shape (2000)

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

The Sun Watches the Sun (1999)

Based on the law of probability, everything is possible because the sheer existence of possibility confirms the existence of impossibility.

God is busy and has no time for you.

The Sun Watches the Sun (1999)

Nothing is part of everything.

The Sign and Its Children (2000)

If what we think of ourselves were true, the planet would overflow with geniuses. They blossomed; they did not talk about blossoming. They grew; they did not talk about growing.

The Sun Watches the Sun (1999)

Although personal calling I sense—who am I? even if I am, I don't know.

Circling: 1978-1987 (1993)

Tell me something only you know and make a new friend.

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

You ask how it is possible
To be your own father and son.
You should seek answers,
Although it is better to anticipate some,
To be the light and dream.

The Shape (2000)

Dejan Stojanović: Creators of history always play with our impotence and our ignorance.

Dejan Stojanović: We measure everything by ourselves with almost a necessary conceit.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Dejan Stojanovic (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.