Quotes by Stojanovic, Dejan




Dejan Stojanović 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. .

"What you spend, you save."

Stojanovic, Dejan on saving    Share


"When within yourself you find the road, the right road will open."

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"In every sound, the hidden silence sleeps."

Stojanovic, Dejan on silence    Share

"In an endless silence even screams sound silent."

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"While the world sleeps, darkness and silence are awake."

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"It is futile to spend time telling stories about the fleetness of each day."

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"It is vain futility to analyze the algebra of time."

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"Heavenly bodies are nests of invisible birds."

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"With your goal you make the one."

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"Color is the overpowering of black; white – the final victory over black."

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"From what you didn’t say, lies that you did say."

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"The eyesight for an eagle is what thought is to a man."

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"The world cannot be translated; it can only be dreamed of and touched."

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"Forget decorated generals, tell me about Private Ryan. "

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

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"Without space, there is no time. "

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"Before the first before and after the last after, there is night waiting. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on night
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"Accidents are not accidents but precise arrivals at the wrong right time. "

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"Love is almost never simple. "

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"Too often, feelings arrive too soon, waiting for thoughts that often come too late. "

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"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. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on desires    Share

"A big desire is not enough to meet the expectations of lost dreams. "

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"To transform a grimace into a sound sounds impossible, yet it is possible to transform a vision into music, to go outside an enslaved personality, to become impersonal by transforming into sand, into water, into light. "

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"There can be no forced inspiration. "

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"Although all days are equally long regardless of the season, some days are long not only seasonally but by rewards they offer. "

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"There is a moonlight note in the Moonlight Sonata; there is a thunder note in an angry sky. "

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"Sound unbound by nature becomes bounded by art. "

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"There is no competition of sounds between a nightingale and a violin. "

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"Art is apotheosis; often, the complaint of beauty. "

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"Nature is an outcry, unpolished truth; the art—a euphemism—tamed wilderness. "

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"If birth is a manifestation of life, death is another. "

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"Every thought about death takes a moment of life away. "

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"History will be erased in the universal purgatory. "

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"Dreams are our only geography—our native land. "

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"Even great men bow before the Sun; it melts hubris into humility. "

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"He had an answer to almost everything and he retired at an early age. "

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"A word into the silence thrown always finds its echo somewhere where silence opens hidden lexicons. "

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"Be aware of the high notes, of the blissful faces and their soft messages, and listen for the silent message of a highly decorated gift. "

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

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"He tries to find the exit from himself but there is no door. "

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