“A breeze, a forgotten summer, a smile, all can fit into a storefront window.”
— Dejan Stojanovic“They blossomed, they did not talk about blossoming.”
— Dejan Stojanovic“Knighthood lies above eternity; it doesn’t live off fame, but rather deeds.”
— Dejan Stojanovic“Arrival in the world is really a departure and that, which we call departure, is only a return.”
— Dejan Stojanovic“From whichever side I start, I think I am in an old place where others have been before me.”
— Dejan Stojanovic“Teaching others, he corrected himself.”
— Dejan Stojanovic“The same word we love and hate, leaves in different directions, taking different paths.”
— Dejan Stojanovic“Different languages, the same thoughts; servant to thoughts and their masters.”
— Dejan Stojanovic“It is beautiful to express love and even more beautiful to feel it.”
— Dejan Stojanovic“You are not what you are; You are darkness Looking for light within.”
— Dejan Stojanovic“The most complicated skill is to be simple.”
— Dejan Stojanovic“Since there is no real silence, Silence will contain all the sounds, All the words, all the languages, All knowledge, all memory.”
— Dejan Stojanovic“Even great men bow before the Sun; it melts hubris into humility.”
— Dejan Stojanovic“In trying to be perfect, He perfected the art of anonymity, Became imperceptible And arrived nowhere from nowhere.”
— Dejan Stojanovic“Trying too hard to be too good, even when trying to be bad, is too good for the bad, too bad for the good.”
— Dejan Stojanovic“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.”
— Dejan Stojanovic“Heavenly bodies are nests of invisible birds.”
— Dejan Stojanovic“A smiling lie is a whirlwind, easy to enter, but hard to escape.”
— Dejan Stojanovic“Sound unbound by nature becomes bounded by art.”
— Dejan Stojanovic“Vandals listen only when others are stronger.If vandals are equal or strongerTheir word is the last word.”
— Dejan Stojanovic“I visited many places, Some of them quite Exotic and far away, But I always returned to myself.”
— Dejan Stojanovic“To hide feelings when you are near crying is the secret of dignity.”
— Dejan Stojanovic“There is another alphabet, whispering from every leaf, singing from every river, shimmering from every sky.”
— Dejan Stojanovic“One hand I extend into myself, the other toward others.”
— Dejan Stojanovic“Words rich in meaning can be cheap in sound effects.”
— Dejan Stojanovic“For a game, you don’t need a teacher.”
— Dejan Stojanovic“You not only are hunted by others, you unknowingly hunt yourself.”
— Dejan Stojanovic“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.”
— Dejan Stojanovic“To jump over centuries In one step is impossible. Jump too high or far, You’ll be way too late.”
— Dejan Stojanovic