Without pleasure there is no sight or measure.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC We measure everything by ourselves with almost a necessary conceit.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC History will be erased in the universal purgatory.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC The same word we love and hate, leaves in different directions, taking different paths.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Devil and God – two sides of the same face.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC With your goal you make the one.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC With me: one minus one = one; with you: it’s zero. Here lies the only difference.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC My mathematics is simple: one plus one = one.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC There is another alphabet, whispering from every leaf, singing from every river, shimmering from eve...
DEJAN STOJANOVIC We will go far away, to nowhere, to conquer, to fertilize until we become tired. Then we will stop a...
DEJAN STOJANOVIC They will smile, as they always do when they plan a major attack late in the night.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC I am the shore and the ocean, awaiting myself on both sides.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Heavenly bodies are nests of invisible birds.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC He tries to find the exit from himself but there is no door.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC There is something perfect to be found in the imperfect: the law keeps balance through the juxtaposi...
DEJAN STOJANOVIC To accomplish the perfect perfection, a little imperfection helps.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC We love the imperfect shapes in nature and in the works of art, look for an intentional error as a s...
DEJAN STOJANOVIC The most complicated skill is to be simple.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC There is only as much space, only as much time,
Only as much desire, only as many words,
DEJAN STOJANOVIC The world contained in a seed, Determined by its program.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Nobility is not only in forgiveness.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC We like to admit to only that which already glows, although it is nobler to support brightness befor...
DEJAN STOJANOVIC To hide feelings when you are near crying is the secret of dignity.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC It is beautiful to express love and even more beautiful to feel it.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC To hear never-heard sounds,
To see never-seen colors and shapes,
To try to understand th...
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Be aware of the high notes, of the blissful faces and their soft messages, and listen for the silent...
DEJAN STOJANOVIC In trying to be perfect,
He perfected the art of anonymity,
Became imperceptible
A...
DEJAN STOJANOVIC There is no competition of sounds between a nightingale and a violin.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC After Homer and Dante, is a whole century of creating worth one Shakespeare?
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Creating means living.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Real geniuses would like that what we think of ourselves is true.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC If what we think of ourselves were true, the planet would overflow with geniuses.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC There are too many literati, yet very few are smart; knowledge is acquired far too easily.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Now that we are all so smart, we don’t easily find resolutions.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Nothing is part of everything.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Perfection seems sterile; it is final, no mystery in it; it's a product of an assembly line.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Color is the overpowering of black; white – the final victory over black.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Say No! Accept the burdens of revenge.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC I lose faith in mathematics, logical and rigid. What with those that even zero doesn’t accept?
DEJAN STOJANOVIC When the star dies,
Its eye closes; tired of watching,
It flies back to its first bright...
DEJAN STOJANOVIC A breeze, a forgotten summer, a smile, all can fit into a storefront window.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC To risk life to save a smile on a face of a woman or a child is the secret of chivalry.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC He did not waste time in a vain search for a place in history.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC There is nobody to wake up eternal seekers.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC All dust is the same dust.
Temporarily separated
To go peacefully
And enjoy the et...
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Since there is no real silence,
Silence will contain all the sounds,
All the words, all ...
DEJAN STOJANOVIC It is easy to see the glow but hard to recognize the awakening of silence.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC There are many secrets; don’t try to resolve them all.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC In the essence of truth lies deceit.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Use the wings of the flying Universe,
Dream with open eyes;
See in darkness.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Pose your questions to people and you will get countless useless answers.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC To transform a grimace into a sound sounds impossible, yet it is possible to transform a vision into...
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Sound unbound by nature becomes bounded by art.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC In an endless silence even screams sound silent.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC In every sound, the hidden silence sleeps.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC I fly through memory to find a newborn love.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Burning the witch Giordano Bruno is one more wound inflicted on Christ’s body.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC To come to nothing through something is the way to outside from both sides.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Mathematics doesn’t care about those beyond the numbers.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC From nothing comes everything.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC From everything, nothing looks to nothing.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC When everything hurries everywhere, nothing goes anywhere.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Description is a story well told already; experience offers truth.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Omnipotence and omniscience are the end of power and knowledge.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC To write good poems is the secret of brevity.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Absolute equals nothingness.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Nothing is made, nothing disappears. The same changes, at the same places, never stopping.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC What you gain here, you lose on the other side.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Words rich in meaning can be cheap in sound effects.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Based on the law of probability, everything is possible because the sheer existence of possibility c...
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Those who hate rain hate life.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC We forget old stories, but those stories remain the same.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC My feelings are too loud for words and too shy for the world.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Courage is more important than to be deceived by shallow victory waiting for a delayed defeat.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Everything that looks too perfect is too perfect to be perfect.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC For a moment at least, be a smile on someone else’s face.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC God is a cloud from which rain fell.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Oblivion cures the old wounds.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC His Highness was always confident in his statements, especially about what he viewed for the first t...
DEJAN STOJANOVIC The world cannot be translated; it can only be dreamed of and touched.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC We hear only our own voices, still echoes returning to our emptiness.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC To sense the peace of extinguished passion
Happiness in not knowing the ultimate knowledge
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Possible is more a matter of attitude,
A matter of decision, to choose
Among the impossi...
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Those in Argentina, Mexico and Peru,
Colombia and the Caribbean
Bear La Mancha and Quixo...
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Don Quixote is not just Don Quixote;
La Mancha is not just geography;
It is our personal...
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Quixote shines from Lorca and Picasso,
From Dalí and El Greco,
From the gloomy 'View of...
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Don Quixote is not an imaginary person; he is as real as Alexander the Great.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Long ago we conquered our passions looking at ourselves in the mirror of eternity.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Unborn eternity does not die; existence is dying and falls asleep in the eternity beyond existence.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Beyond all vanities, fights, and desires, omnipotent silence lies.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Into the day as by dream I swim
To the music of nourished meaning.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC A versifier arranges words and rhymes into verses; a poet arranges verses and rhymes into meanings.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC You not only are hunted by others, you unknowingly hunt yourself.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Either all lights are turned off or one inner light is missing.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Your head is a lit chamber.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Serious affairs and history are carefully laid snares for the uninformed.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Busy with the ugliness of the expensive success
We forget the easiness of free beauty
Lyi...
DEJAN STOJANOVIC God is busy and has no time for you.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Total knowledge is annihilation of the desire to see, to touch, to feel the world sensed only throug...
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Different languages, the same thoughts; servant to thoughts and their masters.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Forget decorated generals, tell me about Private Ryan.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Senses empower limitations, senses expand vision within borders, senses promote understanding throug...
DEJAN STOJANOVIC There is only as much space, only as much time, only as much desire, only as many words, only as man...
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Even great men bow before the Sun; it melts hubris into humility.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Beauty is a cheap word, but beauty remains priceless.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Since there is no real silence, silence will contain all the sounds, all the words, all the language...
DEJAN STOJANOVIC To keep the air fresh among words is the secret of verbal cleanliness.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Faith is a question of eyesight; even the blind can see that.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Infinity is the end. End without infinity is but a new beginning.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Nature is an outcry, unpolished truth; the art—a euphemism—tamed wilderness.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Life is only a flicker of melted ice.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Possible is more a matter of attitude, a matter of decision, to choose among the impossible possibil...
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Great poets are great copy editors.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC To cut and tighten sentences is the secret of mastery.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Procreation annihilates eternity.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Total knowledge is annihilation
Of the desire to see, to touch, to feel
The world sensed...
DEJAN STOJANOVIC This dwarf still observes the world from his own self-imposed height.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC He awaits himself while walking, out of the icy circle to escape.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC When the long bygone Lee Po wanted to say something, he could do it with only a few words.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC How does one say something new and not retell?
DEJAN STOJANOVIC To say more while saying less is the secret of being simple.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC From what you didn’t say, lies that you did say.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC I can see myself before myself—
A being through dark scenery.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC From whichever side I start, I think I am in an old place where others have been before me.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Dust to dust, ashes to ashes. Is that all?
DEJAN STOJANOVIC To dream on occasion is not dreaming,
To love on occasion is not love.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC A word only writes
Its night and rides
Its dream.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Everything seems impossible
And everything seems possible.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Possible impossibility emerges
From an impossible possibility,
Or possibly, impossible p...
DEJAN STOJANOVIC To understand possible means to understand impossible.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Based on the law of probability
Everything is possible because
The sheer existence of po...
DEJAN STOJANOVIC When there is noise and crowds, there is trouble;
When everything is silent and perfect,
DEJAN STOJANOVIC If an ancient man saw planes two thousand years ago, he would've thought they were birds or angels f...
DEJAN STOJANOVIC There are countless circles of hell; believers never penetrate the ninth circle.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC There is a pledge of the big and of the small in the infinite.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC He thought others were small; that was his greatness.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Will the day tell its secret
Before it disappears,
Becomes timeless night.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC To go against the grain is the secret of bravery.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Existence is the end of endless eternity without a beginning or an end.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC When there is noise and crowds, there is trouble; when everything is silent and perfect, there is ju...
DEJAN STOJANOVIC We don’t know anything about silent sages, buried knowledge, the eye of the mute poet, serene seer...
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Absolute is a game with only one player where Absolute forgets itself so it would have a reason to f...
DEJAN STOJANOVIC How many unuttered words died in the heads of those for whom a word was too expensive.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Accidents are not accidents but precise arrivals at the wrong right time.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC The eyesight for an eagle is what thought is to a man.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Before the first before and after the last after, there is night waiting.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Christ did not ask or want to be what he was not.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC There is always the question why
And there is always life,
Which doesn't need an answer.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC And this that you call solitude is in fact a big crowd.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC The farther away, the closer the home becomes.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC It is vain futility to analyze the algebra of time.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC One hand I extend into myself, the other toward others.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Creators of history always play with our impotence and our ignorance.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Holy books are an insult to a God with good intentions.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Entering a cell, penetrating deep as a flying saucer to find a new galaxy would be an honorable task...
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Two forces create eternity – a fairy tale and a dream from the fairy tale.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC The world is a fairy tale; we are its guardians.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC There is a moonlight note in the Moonlight Sonata; there is a thunder note in an angry sky.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Wherever I go, I meet myself.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC To not say all that can be said is the secret of discipline and economy.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Whatever others may say, they say it to deceive and comfort themselves, not help you.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Cosmos is God, who whispered the syllable of life.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Universe is the Sun watching its own self.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC If you could have walked on the planet before humans lived here, maybe the Ivory Coast would have se...
DEJAN STOJANOVIC What does infinity mean to you?
Are you not infinity and yourself?
DEJAN STOJANOVIC When I want to be reminded of stupidity, especially my own, I turn on the TV.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC The universe is God's son.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC I travel, always arriving in the same place.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Love is almost never simple.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC In the lie of truth lies the truth.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC A smiling lie is a whirlwind, easy to enter, but hard to escape.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC To expect to be kissed having bad breath is the secret of a fool.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC There are literary works that speak for themselves and there are writers who boast through work.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Do not look too far for you will see nothing.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC I enjoy it when the world smiles; the more smiles, the warmer I am.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Truth is hard-hearted and unrelenting, too clear, precise; a lie is much more imaginative.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC He knows he will be born again,
And start fresh anew.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC We traveled long and forgot why poetry was invented.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC To jump over centuries
In one step is impossible.
Jump too high or far,
You’ll b...
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Blind people are the best audience; they will be treated according to the formula; it’s easy to ex...
DEJAN STOJANOVIC To leave out beautiful sunsets is the secret of good taste.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC All those big words produce disgust today.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Pretense cannot sustain blind power.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC The world is a navy in an empty ocean.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC You don’t know anything, but I know even less.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC If emptiness is empty, how can something be borne or awaken from it?
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Most often, adorned winners haven’t worked for posterity but for the laurel wreaths and real winne...
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Sometimes it is more victorious to lose than to win.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Darkness does not age; nothing is always nothing
DEJAN STOJANOVIC You are not what you are;
You are darkness
Looking for light within.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Get close to grass and you’ll see a star.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Arrival in the world is really a departure and that, which we call departure, is only a return.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Unjustified ambition kills value,
Kills someone else's desire to fly,
Cuts their wings, s...
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Earth is the source of light.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Teaching others, he corrected himself.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC You mark and celebrate errors, transforming failures into successes.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC They blossomed, they did not talk about blossoming.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Everything and nothing are the same in the Absolute.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC A number is still very accurate, but its role is changed.
In the changed role this number enric...
DEJAN STOJANOVIC I visited many places,
Some of them quite
Exotic and far away,
But I always return...
DEJAN STOJANOVIC