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Quotes by Serbian Authors
"Quixote shines from Lorca and Picasso, From DalA and El Greco, From the gloomy 'View of Toledo.' He was born before Cervantes."
"What you gain here, you lose on the other side."
"The light teaches you to convert life into a festive promenade."
"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."
"Even if you are alone you wage war with yourself."
"It is beautiful to talk about beautiful things and even more beautiful to silently gaze at them."
"From one bell all the bells toll."
"What we call life is only talk of nature."
"Disease often comes with a smiling face."
"God is a cloud from which rain fell."
"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."
"When magic through nerves and reason passes, Imagination, force, and passion will thunder. The portrait of the world is changed."
"Why poetry, you ask? Because of life, I answer."
"To say more while saying less is the secret of being simple."
"Neither alive nor dead; No one lets up, No one wins."
"Pose your questions to people and you will get countless useless answers."
"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."
"Names do not write poems nor do they create work."
"Color is the overpowering of black, white " the final victory over black."
"Devil and God " two sides of the same face."
"The purpose of life is life."
"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."
"Creators of history always play with our impotence and our ignorance."
"You mark and celebrate errors, transforming failures into successes."
"To come to nothing through something is the way to outside from both sides."
"You don't know anything, but I know even less."
"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."
"There is always the question why And there is always life, Which doesn't need an answer."
"The world of numbers and words is odd. A number is the only word that doesn't lie and words can be very deceitful, they create the illusion that a large number hides a great word."
"I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible the world has written its own."
"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."
"Too often, feelings arrive too soon, waiting for thoughts that often come too late."
"A big desire is not enough to meet the expectations of lost dreams."
"To hear never-heard sounds, To see never-seen colors and shapes, To try to understand the imperceptible Power pervading the world; To fly and find pure ethereal substances That are not of matter But of that invisible soul pervading reality. To hear another soul and to whisper to another soul; To be a lantern in the darkness Or an umbrella in a stormy day; To feel much more than know. To be the eyes of an eagle, slope of a mountain; To be a wave understanding the influence of the moon; To be a tree and read the memory of the leaves; To be an insignificant pedestrian on the streets Of crazy cities watching, watching, and watching. To be a smile on the face of a woman And shine in her memory As a moment saved without planning."
"In its proper role, a number counts the missing words."
"A word into the silence thrown always finds its echo somewhere where silence opens hidden lexicons."
"Accidents are not accidents but precise arrivals at the wrong right time."
"Wherever there is somebody else, a war is not far away."
"Wherever I go, I meet myself."
"Dust to dust, ashes to ashes. Is that all?"
"I travel, always arriving in the same place."
"To go where no one else has ever gone before is the secret of heroism."
"Procreation annihilates eternity."
"To keep the air fresh among words is the secret of verbal cleanliness."
"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."
"They grew, they did not talk about growing."
"To write good poems is the secret of brevity."
"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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