Quotes by Stojanovic, Dejan

"Dust to dust, ashes to ashes. Is that all? "

Stojanovic, Dejan on faith   

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

Stojanovic, Dejan on feelings   

"There is another alphabet, whispering from every leaf, singing from every river, shimmering from every sky. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on sky   

"I fly through memory to find a newborn love. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on memory   

"Trying too hard to be too good, even when trying to be bad, is too good for the bad, too bad for the good. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on perfection   

"Perfection seems sterile; it is final, no mystery in it; it's a product of an assembly line. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on perfection   

"To accomplish the perfect perfection, a little imperfection helps. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on perfection   

"Entering a cell, penetrating deep as a flying saucer to find a new galaxy would be an honorable task for a new scientist interested more in the inner state of the soul than in outer space. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on science   

"Senses empower limitations, senses expand vision within borders, senses promote understanding through pleasure. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on senses   

"Without pleasure there is no sight or measure. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on pleasure   

" Total knowledge is annihilation of the desire to see, to touch, to feel the world sensed only through senses and immune to the knowledge without feeling. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on knowledge   

"Great poets are great copy editors. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on poetry and poets   

"There is no born lover, there is no born Don Juan, for we are all lovers. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on love   

"To dream on occasion is not dreaming; to love on occasion is not love. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on love   

"There is something perfect to be found in the imperfect: the law keeps balance through the juxtaposition of beauty, which gains perfection through nurtured imperfection. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on beauty   

"Everything that looks too perfect is too perfect to be perfect. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on perfection   

"We love the imperfect shapes in nature and in the works of art, look for an intentional error as a sign of the golden key and sincerity found in true mastery. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on perfection   

"When all is lost, there is still a memory. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on memory   

"Oblivion cures the old wounds. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on memory   

"Fly without wings; dream with open eyes. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on dream   

"In trying to be perfect, he perfected the art of anonymity. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on perfection   

"If an ancient man saw planes two thousand years ago, he would've thought they were birds or angels from another world or messengers from other planets. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on history and human nature   

"When there is noise and crowds, there is trouble; when everything is silent and perfect, there is just perfection and nothing to fill the air. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on perfection   

"Why poetry, you ask? Because of life, I answer. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on poetry and poets   

"Possible impossibility emerges from an impossible possibility, or possibly, impossible possibility blooms from the impossibly possible impossibility. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on potential   

"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. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on opportunity   

"Those who hate rain hate life. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on rain   

"Nothing reminds us of an awakening more than rain. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on rain   

"Pretense cannot sustain blind power. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on power   

"Courage is more important than to be deceived by shallow victory waiting for a delayed defeat. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on courage   

"Dream by making and make by dreaming. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on dream   

"Busy with the ugliness of the expensive success we forget the easiness of free beauty lying sad right around the corner, only an instant removed, unnoticed and squandered. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on beauty   

"Since nothing is absolute, there is no absolute silence, only an appearance of temporary peace. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on silence   

"Since there is no real silence, silence will contain all the sounds, all the words, all the languages, all knowledge, all memory. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on silence   

"Get out, but don't cause unneeded accidents. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on accidents   

"If unjustified, ambition kills value, eats its own life, kills someone else's desire to fly, cuts their wings, sucks their air. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on ambition   

"There is only as much space, only as much time, only as much desire, only as many words, only as many pages, only as much ink to accept all of us at light-speed hurrying into the Promised Land of oblivion that is waiting for us sooner or later. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on ambition   

"The most complicated skill is to be simple. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on simplicity   

"To say more while saying less is the secret of being simple. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on simplicity   

"To not say all that can be said is the secret of discipline and economy. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on discipline