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Quotes by Serbian Authors
"In greatness, life and death merge."
"Now that we are all so smart, we don't easily find resolutions."
"Use the wings of the flying Universe, Dream with open eyes; See in darkness."
"You ask how it is possible to be your own father and son. You should seek answers, although it is better to anticipate some, to be the light and dream."
"What are all these writers fighting for? For their own victory or for the victory of their profession?"
"If we were to understand how important it is to say something and say it well, maybe we wouldn't write a single word, but that would be tragic."
"In an endless silence even screams sound silent."
"To go against the grain is the secret of bravery."
"We like to admit to only that which already glows, although it is nobler to support brightness before it glows, not afterwards."
"There are anonymous poems and poets without poems."
"A versifier's poem is born by the sound, a poet's sound is born by the poem."
"We need knew knights, but without swords."
"Everything and nothing are the same in the Absolute."
"To accomplish the perfect perfection, a little imperfection helps."
"To cut and tighten sentences is the secret of mastery."
"Christ did not ask or want to be what he was not."
"Will the day tell its secret Before it disappears, Becomes timeless night."
"Busy with the ugliness of the expensive success We forget the easiness of free beautyLying sad right around the corner, Only an instant removed, Unnoticed and squandered."
"We built tall buildings, but we have not become any taller."
"Knighthood lies above eternity; it doesn't live off fame, but rather deeds."
"In the biggest and the smallest I sleep but at the same place I stay."
"It's not easy to write a poem about a poem."
"They will smile, as they always do when they plan a major attack late in the night."
"To not say all that can be said is the secret of discipline and economy."
"A versifier arranges sounds, a poet arranges meaning in the sounds."
"Nobility is not only in forgiveness."
"Digressions are part of harmony, deviations too."
"The game itself is bigger than the winning."
"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."
"There is no competition of sounds between a nightingale and a violin."
"Based on the law of probability Everything is possible because The sheer existence of possibility Confirms the existence Of impossibility."
"He did not profess to anybody how to reach others without professing."
"If birth is a manifestation of life, death is another."
"Love is almost never simple."
"Whatever others may say, they say it to deceive and comfort themselves, not help you."
"He thought others were small, that was his greatness."
"Bureaucracy is a huge beast; deeply rooted, it exists even among artists; it's an almost losing battle against it."
"He had an answer to almost everything and he retired at an early age."
"Is it possible to write a poem or are these words just screams of outlaws exiled to the desert?"
"We traveled long and forgot why poetry was invented."
"Stars are only the rain of the Absolute."
"To risk life to save a smile on a face of a woman or a child is the secret of chivalry."
"Nothing is inanimate, what is the rest is our interpretation."
"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."
"If you are only what you are, You at least have a chance Not to outsmart, But be on a par with yourself And that is worth trying."
"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."
"When everything hurries everywhere, nothing goes anywhere."
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