Even great men bow before the Sun; it melts hubris into humility.
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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294 quotes
Now that we are all so smart, we don’t easily find resolutions.
The Sun Watches the Sun (1999)
Everything that looks too perfect is too perfect to be perfect.
The Sun Watches the Sun (1999)
We built tall buildings, but we have not become any taller.
The Sun Watches the Sun (1999)
Every star was once darker than the night, before it awoke.
The Sign and Its Children (2000)
To leave out beautiful sunsets is the secret of good taste.
I don’t know if you are me or I am neither I nor you.
The Shape (2000)
Nothing reminds us of an awakening more than rain.
Sound unbound by nature becomes bounded by art.
To write good poems is the secret of brevity.
I fly through memory to find a newborn love.
Life is only a flicker of melted ice.
The Sun Watches the Sun (1999)
To jump over centuries in one step is impossible. Jump too high or far, you’ll be way too late.
Circling: 1978-1987 (1993)
I lose faith in mathematics, logical and rigid. What with those that even zero doesn’t accept?
The Shape (2000)
All dust is the same dust. Temporarily separated to go peacefully and enjoy the eternal nap.
Circling: 1978-1987 (1993)
Circling: 1978-1987 (1993)
With me: one minus one = one; with you: it’s zero. Here lies the only difference.
The Shape (2000)
And what does infinity mean to you? Are you not infinity and yourself?
Circling: 1978-1987 (1993)
Dejan Stojanović: If emptiness is endless, then everything rests in emptiness.
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Dejan Stojanovic (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.