Poets From Serbia

"Even if you are alone you wage war with yourself."

"A breeze, a forgotten summer, a smile, all can fit into a storefront window."

"We built tall buildings, but we have not become any taller."

"Whatever others may say, they say it to deceive and comfort themselves, not help you."

"His Highness was always confident in his statements, especially about what he viewed for the first time."

"Now that we are all so smart, we don’t easily find resolutions."

"He thought others were small; that was his greatness."

"This dwarf still observes the world from his own self-imposed height."

"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."

"We measure everything by ourselves with almost a necessary conceit."

"There are no winners in real games."

"The game itself is bigger than the winning."

"Serious affairs and history are carefully laid snares for the uninformed."

"Creators of history always play with our impotence and our ignorance."

"You mark and celebrate errors, transforming failures into successes."

"Statesmen are grocers, ambitious clowns."

"For a game, you don’t need a teacher."

"Faith is a question of eyesight; even the blind can see that."

"Holy books are an insult to a God with good intentions."

"The universe is God’s son."

"Christ did not ask or want to be what he was not."

"Burning the witch Giordano Bruno is one more wound inflicted on Christ’s body."

"Your head is a lit chamber."

"The light teaches you to convert life into a festive promenade."

"What we call life is only talk of nature."

"Nothing is inanimate; what is the rest is our interpretation."

"We like to admit to only that which already glows, although it is nobler to support brightness before it glows, not afterwards."

"It is easy to see the glow but hard to recognize the awakening of silence."

"Disease often comes with a smiling face."

"Strangers are endearing because you don’t know them yet."

"He confided his deepest secret to you; be always wary of his secret."

"Don’t pay attention to those who offer too much."

"Is it possible to write a poem or are these words just screams of outlaws exiled to the desert?"

"It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem."

"You don’t know anything, but I know even less."

"If you are good, they say you are weak."

"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."

"Pose your questions to people and you will get countless useless answers."

"From whichever side I start, I think I am in an old place where others have been before me."

"For a moment at least, be a smile on someone else’s face."

"Beyond all vanities, fights, and desires, omnipotent silence lies."

"There are many secrets; don’t try to resolve them all."

"To sense the peace of extinguished passion, happiness in not knowing the ultimate knowledge."

"If emptiness is empty, how can something be borne or awaken from it?"

"If emptiness is endless, then everything rests in emptiness."

"Nothing is part of everything."

"Without nothing, everything would be nothing."

"From everything, nothing looks to nothing."

"From nothing comes everything."

"When everything hurries everywhere, nothing goes anywhere."