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Quotes by Serbian Authors
"There can be no forced inspiration."
"Nothing reminds us of an awakening more than rain."
"When magic through nerves and reason passes, Imagination, force, and passion will thunder. The portrait of the world is changed."
"The world cannot be translated, It can only be dreamed of and touched."
"There is no competition of sounds between a nightingale and a violin."
"Too often, feelings arrive too soon, waiting for thoughts that often come too late."
"Wherever I go, I meet myself."
"I travel, always arriving in the same place."
"Procreation annihilates eternity."
"A breeze, a forgotten summer, a smile, all can fit into a storefront window."
"There is another alphabet, whispering from every leaf, singing from every river, shimmering from every sky."
"There is no born lover, There is no born Don Juan, For we are all lovers."
"We will go far away, to nowhere, to conquer, to fertilize until we become tired. Then we will stop and there will be our home."
"Strangers are endearing because you don't know them yet."
"From whichever side I start, I think I am in an old place where others have been before me."
"Eternity is a glorious word, but eternity is ice."
"Names sound nice because no one peeks behind the cover to see the sad face of a poem crying for meaning, while the name of the creator proudly smiles from the title."
"Everything passes through the eyes of top bureaucrats who closely watch to ensure that no intruder can enter their ranks and disrupt the order and arrangement of values in which everything is predetermined and where everyone knows their place, everyone's potential, talent and position in history."
"They blossomed, they did not talk about blossoming."
"He had an answer to almost everything and he retired at an early age."
"In every sound, the hidden silence sleeps."
"Do not look too far for you will see nothing."
"Through memory to knowledge on the way to stars that are stepping down to the stuffy rooms of modern bureaucrats, illuminating their ceilings, their horizons where everything is easily resolved by the piles of paper and recipes for how to live, create, run, eat, breathe, learn how to love, how to make love, how to sleep, how to dream, how happiness is achieved under the artificial stars of the new sky that emerged from the bureaucratic rooms of aspiring and impotent minds, unable to love, even though they had all their life to learn what they preach."
"What you gain here, you lose on the other side."
"The name does not deserve the poem, but the poem deserves the name."
"Since nothing is absolute There is no absolute silence, Only an appearance Of temporary peace."
"Truth is hard-hearted and unrelenting, too clear, precise; a lie is much more imaginative."
"From what you didn't say, lies that you did say."
"To say more while saying less is the secret of being simple."
"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."
"Use the wings of the flying Universe, Dream with open eyes; See in darkness."
"It is not possible to express the most precious insights, To see all that craves to be seen, To visit even the closest neighbors in the universe, To learn all that needs to be learned, To live without dying, And I am sad about it.But I livedAnd I am happy about that."
"The world is a navy in an empty ocean."
"The game itself is bigger than the winning."
"I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible the world has written its own."
"If birth is a manifestation of life, death is another."
"Unwritten words grow out of silence."
"In greatness, life and death merge."
"Dust to dust, ashes to ashes. Is that all?"
"Although all days are equally long regardless of the season, some days are long not only seasonally but by rewards they offer."
"Teaching others, he corrected himself."
"Omnipotence and omniscience are the end of power and knowledge."
"Knowing how to dream is more important than the story, because the story tells itself."
"They are both spectacular, Life and death."
"Everything seems impossible And everything seems possible."
"When he is most powerful, nothing does he become."
"Different languages, the same thoughts; servant to thoughts and their masters."
"We measure everything by ourselves with almost a necessary conceit."
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