Dejan Stojanovic

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

— Dejan Stojanovic

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

— Dejan Stojanovic

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

— Dejan Stojanovic

I fly through memory to find a newborn love.

— Dejan Stojanovic

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

— Dejan Stojanovic

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

— Dejan Stojanovic

To accomplish the perfect perfection, a little imperfection helps.

— Dejan Stojanovic

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.

— Dejan Stojanovic

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

— Dejan Stojanovic

Without pleasure there is no sight or measure.

— Dejan Stojanovic

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.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Great poets are great copy editors.

— Dejan Stojanovic

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

— Dejan Stojanovic

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

— Dejan Stojanovic

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.

— Dejan Stojanovic

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

— Dejan Stojanovic

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.

— Dejan Stojanovic

When all is lost, there is still a memory.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Oblivion cures the old wounds.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Fly without wings; dream with open eyes.

— Dejan Stojanovic

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

— Dejan Stojanovic

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.

— Dejan Stojanovic

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.

— Dejan Stojanovic

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

— Dejan Stojanovic

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

— Dejan Stojanovic

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.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Those who hate rain hate life.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Nothing reminds us of an awakening more than rain.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Pretense cannot sustain blind power.

— Dejan Stojanovic

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

— Dejan Stojanovic

Dream by making and make by dreaming.

— Dejan Stojanovic

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.

— Dejan Stojanovic

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

— Dejan Stojanovic

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

— Dejan Stojanovic

Get out, but don't cause unneeded accidents.

— Dejan Stojanovic

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

— Dejan Stojanovic

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.

— Dejan Stojanovic

The most complicated skill is to be simple.

— Dejan Stojanovic

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

— Dejan Stojanovic

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

— Dejan Stojanovic

To leave out beautiful sunsets is the secret of good taste.

— Dejan Stojanovic

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

— Dejan Stojanovic

To cut and tighten sentences is the secret of mastery.

— Dejan Stojanovic

To keep the air fresh among words is the secret of verbal cleanliness.

— Dejan Stojanovic

To write good poems is the secret of brevity.

— Dejan Stojanovic

To go against the grain is the secret of bravery.

— 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

To go where no one else has ever gone before is the secret of heroism.

— Dejan Stojanovic

To expect to be kissed having bad breath is the secret of a fool.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Words rich in meaning can be cheap in sound effects.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Every man needs his Siren to check his courage and strength when he hears her song in his travels through the unknown.

— Dejan Stojanovic

We traveled long and forgot why poetry was invented.

— Dejan Stojanovic

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

— Dejan Stojanovic

A star needs a star.

— Dejan Stojanovic

When I want to be reminded of stupidity, especially my own, I turn on the TV.

— Dejan Stojanovic

I visited many places, some of them quite exotic and far away, but I always returned to myself.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Based on the law of probability, everything is possible because the sheer existence of possibility confirms the existence of impossibility.

— Dejan Stojanovic

To understand possible means to understand impossible.

— Dejan Stojanovic

It is beautiful to talk about beautiful things and even more beautiful to silently gaze at them.

— Dejan Stojanovic

It is beautiful to express love and even more beautiful to feel it.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Beauty is a cheap word, but beauty remains priceless.

— Dejan Stojanovic