Quotes by Stojanovic, Dejan




Dejan Stojanoviæ was born in Pec, Kosovo (the former Yugoslavia), in 1959. Although a lawyer by education, he has never practiced law and instead became a journalist. He is a poet, essayist, philosopher, and businessman and published six critically acclaimed books of poetry in Serbia: "Circling," "The Sun Watches the Sun," "The Sign and Its Children," "The Shape," "The Creator," and "Dance of Time." In 1986, as a young writer, he was recognized among 200 writers at the Bor (former Yugoslavia) Literary Festival. He also received the prestigious "Rastko Petrovic" Award from the Society of Serbian Writers for his book of interviews with major European and American artists and writers. In addition to poetry and prose, he has worked as a correspondent for the Serbian weekly magazine "Pogledi" ("Views"). His book of interviews from 1990 to 1992 in Europe and America, entitled Conversations, included interviews with several major American writers, including Nobel Laureate Saul Bellow, Charles Simic, and Steve Tesic. He has been living in Chicago since 1990. .

"It is easy to see the glow but hard to recognize the awakening of silence."

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"Disease often comes with a smiling face. "

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"Strangers are endearing because you don’t know them yet. "

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"He confided his deepest secret to you; be always wary of his secret. "

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"Don’t pay attention to those who offer too much. "

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"Is it possible to write a poem or are these words just screams of outlaws exiled to the desert? "

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"It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem. "

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"You don’t know anything, but I know even less. "

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"If you are good, they say you are weak. "

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"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. "

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"Pose your questions to people and you will get countless useless answers."

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"From whichever side I start, I think I am in an old place where others have been before me. "

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"For a moment at least, be a smile on someone else’s face. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on smile
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"Beyond all vanities, fights, and desires, omnipotent silence lies."

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"There are many secrets; don’t try to resolve them all. "

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"They are both spectacular, life and death.”"

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"In greatness, life and death merge."

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"Nothing is made, nothing disappears. These are the old truths. The same changes, at the same places, never stopping."

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"He will understand when it is too late that it is easier to love."

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"Wherever I go, I run into myself."

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"One hand I extend into myself, the other toward others."

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"I recreate myself; that is my only power."

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"I enjoy it when the world smiles; the more smiles, the warmer I am."

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"And this that you call solitude is in fact a big crowd."

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"Creating means living."

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"My mathematics is simple: one plus one = one."

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"With me: one minus one = one; with you: it’s zero. Here lies the only difference. "

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"I lose faith in mathematics, logical and rigid. What with those that even zero doesn’t accept?"

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"I lose faith in mathematics, logical and rigid. What with those that even zero doesn’t accept?"

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"Mathematics doesn’t care about those beyond the numbers."

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"What you gain here, you lose on the other side."

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

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"Long ago an uncalled rain fell and a called-upon God stayed equally distant."

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"While gazing at myself from yourself, I was beautiful."

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"We don’t know anything about silent sages, buried knowledge, the eye of the mute poet, serene seers, yet how many talkative destroyers, prophets and ideologues, teachers and beautifiers there are on the other side."

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

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"And what does infinity mean to you? Are you not infinity and yourself?"

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"The farther away, the closer the home becomes."

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"I can see myself before myself—a being through dark scenery."

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"Into the day as by dream I swim to the music of nourished meaning."

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