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Quotes by Serbian Authors
"He thought others were small, that was his greatness."
"Into the day as by dream I swim To the music of nourished meaning."
"Words rich in meaning can be cheap in sound effects."
"We traveled long and forgot why poetry was invented."
"Nothing is inanimate, what is the rest is our interpretation."
"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."
"Is my victory real, does the winner adorned with a laurel wreath ask this question? Do I deserve victory or did I steal it from someone who is more worthy of victory?"
"When the star dies, Its eye closes; tired of watching, It flies back to its first bright dream."
"It is beautiful to talk about beautiful things and even more beautiful to silently gaze at them."
"Everything and nothing are the same in the Absolute."
"Will the day tell its secret Before it disappears, Becomes timeless night."
"We forget old stories, but those stories remain the same."
"Pose your questions to people and you will get countless useless answers."
"Color is the overpowering of black, white " the final victory over black."
"The purpose of life is life."
"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."
"To sense the peace of extinguished passionHappiness in not knowing the ultimate knowledge."
"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."
"Those who would like to become writers attend courses on writing poetry and prose and analyze their own work and that of other writers in development. Teachers teach them that talent is not required and that anyone, who wants to be a writer, can do it if they only master the technique of writing and master the formulas of the genre that they choose. With a little brain storming ideas written on cards, as well as designs and plans on the table, one can even write a novel in a month. There is no secret; the whole secret is in the technique, a little research, and the rest is solved by form, according to a formula, in which it is all nicely wrapped up and packaged. And so, a bestseller is born."
"Great poets are great copy editors."
"To keep the air fresh among words is the secret of verbal cleanliness."
"All people are enslaved by something."
"I enjoy it when the world smiles; the more smiles, the warmer I am."
"Tell me something only you know and make a new friend."
"We dream and fight with demons real and imagined."
"Although personal calling I sense,Who am I? even if I am, I don't know."
"Love is almost never simple."
"I am the shore and the ocean, awaiting myself on both sides."
"Art is apotheosis; often, the complaint of beauty."
"The world is a fairy tale, we are its guardians."
"Bureaucracy is a huge beast; deeply rooted, it exists even among artists; it's an almost losing battle against it."
"Long ago an uncalled rain fell and a called-upon God stayed equally distant."
"Beyond all vanities, fights, and desires, omnipotent silence lies."
"He knows he will be born again, And start fresh anew."
"An unrewarded value is more valuable than a reward with no value."
"When all is lost, there is still a memory."
"Many writers were better before they became famous."
"From everything, nothing looks to nothing."
"Christ did not ask or want to be what he was not."
"Instead of imitating me, you simply loiter."
"You not only are hunted by others, you unknowingly hunt yourself."
"They forget that love is not a science but an inherent state of mind; they forget that sex is practiced by animals without textbooks and that it is not such a secret that requires a complete science, courses and special training. And so impotent, with artificial stars on the ceilings of their rooms, they become the main teachers on the way to the stars."
"God is a cloud from which rain fell."
"We don't know anything about silent sages, buried knowledge, the eye of the mute poet, serene seers, yet how many talkative destroyers, prophets and ideologues, teachers and beautifiers there are on the other side."
"A word is not filling in the gaps, but the fertilization of silence."
"Why poetry, you ask? Because of life, I answer."
"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."
"Neither alive nor dead; No one lets up, No one wins."
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