“I imagined I was God for a millisecond and became speechless for a long time.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

Sounds of Imagination http://www.poetrysoup.com/famous/poem/21407/Sounds_of_Imagination
From the poems written in English

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poet, writer, and businessman 1959

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