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Quotes by Serbian Authors
"No reason for a feverish rush For we will all arrive in the same place At the right time. Justice will be served. There will be no better or worse, No big and small, no rewards, no punishment, No guilt, no judges, no hierarchies; Only silent equality."
"Long ago we conquered our passions looking at ourselves in the mirror of eternity."
"What you gain here, you lose on the other side."
"Instead of imitating me, you simply loiter."
"A hidden spark of the dream sleeps In the forest and waits In the celestial spheres of the brain."
"In a real poem a sound does not swallow a letter, but a letter swallows a sound."
"A word is not filling in the gaps, but the fertilization of silence."
"The deeper thought is, the taller it becomes."
"It is vain futility to analyze the algebra of time."
"Why poetry, you ask? Because of life, I answer."
"Neither alive nor dead; No one lets up, No one wins."
"It's not easy to write a poem about a poem."
"Color is the overpowering of black, white " the final victory over black."
"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."
"He did not profess to anybody how to reach others without professing."
"Pretense cannot sustain blind power."
"Get close to grass and you'll see a star."
"In greatness, life and death merge."
"Through everything I have passed but nowhere I have been."
"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."
"To keep the air fresh among words is the secret of verbal cleanliness."
"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 write good poems is the secret of brevity."
"A word was more valuable to them when they were not sure of its value. Since they became famous, their word has been more expensive but its value is less."
"Nothing is inanimate, what is the rest is our interpretation."
"From everything, nothing looks to nothing."
"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."
"What we call life is only talk of nature."
"They will smile, as they always do when they plan a major attack late in the night."
"Creators of history always play with our impotence and our ignorance."
"A versifier arranges sounds, a poet arranges meaning in the sounds."
"You mark and celebrate errors, transforming failures into successes."
"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 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."
"Based on the law of probability Everything is possible because The sheer existence of possibility Confirms the existence Of impossibility."
"In the lie of truth lies the truth."
"I enjoy it when the world smiles; the more smiles, the warmer I am."
"There is no born lover, There is no born Don Juan, For we are all lovers."
"Into the day as by dream I swim To the music of nourished meaning."
"Words rich in meaning can be cheap in sound effects."
"When all is lost, there is still a memory."
"The world is always open, Waiting to be discovered."
"Vandals listen only when others are stronger.If vandals are equal or strongerTheir word is the last word."
"Don Quixote is not an imaginary person, he is as real as Alexander the Great."
"I can see myself before myself-A being through dark scenery."
"To hide feelings when you are near crying is the secret of dignity."
"A word into the silence thrown always finds its echo somewhere where silence opens hidden lexicons."
"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."
"My feelings are too loud for words and too shy for the world."
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