Dejan Stojanovic Quotes

The world is a navy in an empty ocean.

To hide feelings when you are near crying is the secret of dignity.

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Dejan Stojanović (Serbian Cyrillic: Дејан Стојановић, pronounced [dějan stojǎːnoʋitɕ]; born 11 March 1959) is a Serbian American poet, writer, essayist, philosopher, businessman, and former journalist. His poetry is characterized by a recognizable system of thought, and poetic devices that border on philosophy and a highly reflective overall tone. According to critic Petar V. Arbutina, "Stojanović belongs to the small and autochthonous circle of poets who have been the main creative and artistic force of the Serbian poetry in the last several decades."

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.

Nothing reminds us of an awakening more than rain.

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.

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

No reason for a feverish rush For we will all arrive in the same place At the right time. Justice will be served. There will be no better or worse, No big and small, no rewards, no punishment, No guil...

I imagined I was God for a millisecond And became speechless for a long time.

We dream and fight with demons real and imagined.

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

We only live if we dream.

Sound unbound by nature becomes bounded by art.

Pretense cannot sustain blind power.

I fly through memory to find a newborn love.

When all is lost, there is still a memory.

Those who hate rain hate life.

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

My feelings are too loud for words and too shy for the world.

There can be no forced inspiration.

To risk life to save a smile on a face of a woman or a child is the secret of chivalry.