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“To keep the air fresh among words is the secret of verbal cleanliness.”

Dejan Stojanovic

Simplicity http://www.poetrysoup.com/famous/poem/21390/Simplicity <br class="br">From the poems written in English

“From what you didn’t say, lies that you did say.”

Dejan Stojanovic book The Creator

“The Light of the Book,” p. 69
The Creator (2000), Sequence: “Thought and Flight”

“When everything hurries everywhere, nothing goes anywhere.”

Dejan Stojanovic book The Sign and Its Children

"Sign and Speed," p. 19
The Sign and Its Children (2000), Sequence: “The Sign and Nothing”

“Either all lights are turned off or one inner light is missing.”

Dejan Stojanovic

“New Word,” p. 69
The Sun Watches the Sun (1999), Sequence: “A Stone and a Word”

“It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.”

Dejan Stojanovic

“Is It Possible to Write a Poem?,” p. 111
The Sun Watches the Sun (1999), Sequence: “Is It Possible to Write a Poem”

“Dreams are our only geography—our native land.”

Dejan Stojanovic

Don Quixote http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/don-quixote-6/ <br class="br">From the poems written in English

“From nothing comes everything.”

Dejan Stojanovic book The Sign and Its Children

"While the Sign Sleeps," p. 17
The Sign and Its Children (2000), Sequence: “The Sign and Nothing”

“If what we think of ourselves were true, the planet would overflow with geniuses. They blossomed; they did not talk about blossoming. They grew; they did not talk about growing.”

Dejan Stojanovic

“A Thought about Ourselves,” p. 122
The Sun Watches the Sun (1999), Sequence: “Hopelessness”

“If you could have walked on the planet before humans lived here, maybe the Ivory Coast would have seemed more beautiful than La Côte d'Azur.”

Dejan Stojanovic

“Virus of the Soul,” p. 93
The Sun Watches the Sun (1999), Sequence: “A Game”

“A big desire is not enough to meet the expectations of lost dreams.”

Dejan Stojanovic

Big Dreams http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/big-dreams-2/ <br class="br">From the poems written in English

“Nature is an outcry, unpolished truth; the art—a euphemism—tamed wilderness.”

Dejan Stojanovic

Dancing of Sounds http://www.poetrysoup.com/famous/poem/21378/Dancing_of_Sounds <br class="br">From the poems written in English

“Digressions are part of harmony, deviations too.”

Dejan Stojanovic book The Sign and Its Children

"The Eye of a Sign," p. 43
The Sign and Its Children (2000), Sequence: “A Word and a Sign”

“How does one say something new and not retell?”

Dejan Stojanovic

“New Word,” p. 69
The Sun Watches the Sun (1999), Sequence: “A Stone and a Word”

“My mathematics is simple: one plus one = one.”

Dejan Stojanovic

"Mathematics," p. 29
The Shape (2000), Sequence: “Happiness of Atoms”

“I lose faith in mathematics, logical and rigid. What with those that even zero doesn’t accept?”

Dejan Stojanovic

"I and I," p. 30
The Shape (2000), Sequence: “Happiness of Atoms”

“Life eats life to live.”

Dejan Stojanovic book Circling: 1978-1987

Circling: 1978-1987 (1993), Sequence: “Darkness Is Waiting”

“Death swallows death.”

Dejan Stojanovic book Circling: 1978-1987

”River of Death,” p. 78
Circling: 1978-1987 (1993), Sequence: “Darkness Is Waiting”

“Creating means living.”

Dejan Stojanovic

"The Life of the Shape," p. 23
The Shape (2000), Sequence: “Happiness of Atoms”