Dejan Stojanovic Quotes
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Dejan Stojanović is a Serbian poet, writer, essayist, philosopher, businessman, and former journalist. His poetry is characterized by a recognizable system of thought and poetic devices, bordering on philosophy, and, overall, it has a highly reflective tone. According to the critic Petar V. Arbutina, "Stojanović belongs to the small and autochthonous circle of poets who have been the main creative and artistic force of the Serbian poetry in the last several decades." Wikipedia  

✵ 11. March 1959
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Dejan Stojanovic Quotes

“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”