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Quotes by Serbian Authors
"A poem that is itself a name does not yearn for the name of its creator, but shines from its name alone."
"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."
"I can see myself before myself-A being through dark scenery."
"From what you didn't say, lies that you did say."
"We forget old stories, but those stories remain the same."
"When magic through nerves and reason passes, Imagination, force, and passion will thunder. The portrait of the world is changed."
"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."
"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."
"To come to nothing through something is the way to outside from both sides."
"You don't know anything, but I know even less."
"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."
"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."
"Wherever there is somebody else, a war is not far away."
"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."
"In the lie of truth lies the truth."
"Dust to dust, ashes to ashes. Is that all?"
"The world contained in a seed, Determined by its program."
"A poem is its own name and cover."
"Before the first before and after the last after, there is night waiting."
"Procreation annihilates eternity."
"Great poets are great copy editors."
"All people are enslaved by something."
"I enjoy it when the world smiles; the more smiles, the warmer I am."
"Unjustified ambition kills value,Kills someone else's desire to fly, Cuts their wings, sucks their air.If there is nothing else, it eats its own life."
"Even great men bow before the Sun, it melts hubris into humility."
"Tell me something only you know and make a new friend."
"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."
"Say No! Accept the burdens of revenge."
"God is busy and has no time for you."
"We dream and fight with demons real and imagined."
"To transform a grimace into a sound sounds impossible, yet it is possible to transform a vision into music, to go outside an enslaved personality, to become impersonal by transforming into sand, into water, into light."
"To understand possible means to understand impossible."
"Neruda had his first dream, First meeting with the Moon and the Sun In sunny La Mancha, hiding in his heart,Where he learned how to sing like a nightingale."
"They grew, they did not talk about growing."
"Although all days are equally long regardless of the season, some days are long not only seasonally but by rewards they offer."
"Everything that looks too perfect is too perfect to be perfect."
"Love is almost never simple."
"To leave out beautiful sunsets is the secret of good taste."
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