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“Čovjek doduše najčešće govori radi sebe, ali mora da osjeti odjek svojih riječi.”
― Meša Selimović, Death and the Dervish

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“Kad Rat pravi žurku, redosled gostiju uvek je isti...
Prvo dođu Popovi...
Pa Topovi...
Pa Lopovi...
Ostali se i ne pozivaju. Ostali se donose na poklon...”
― Đorđe Balašević

tags: intellectual, pacifism, war

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“Odjebi, JNA...
Dao sam ti jednu dobru godinu života...
Najbolju, možda?
Veliki Vračevi Medicine rascepe grudi kao narandžu i spuste novo srce u njih (pažljivo, zatvorenih šaka, kao da vraćaju vrapčića u gnezdo), razdvoje skalpelom svetlo od tame u mutnom jezgru zenice, bajaju, pokretnu nepokretno, čudotvore na ljudima, pa opet, ni oni ne mogu da mi vrate moju otrgnutu devetnaestu....
Nikad više...
Ali...
Proklet da sam...
Ja sam bar imao dvadesetu. Dvadeset prvu. I još neke dvadeset-tridesete...
Za razliku od dečaka na čije crno uokvirene fotografije svakodnevno nailazim na predzadnjim stranicama štampe...
Oni ostadoše negde u devetnaestoj...
Zaljubljeni...
Zaigrani...
Zbunjeni...
Ne dospevši da svoje olovne vojnike razdvoje od olovnih zrna, koje su im Zli Starci tako bezbožnički podmetnuli u džepove...
Ne, Brate Kaine, ne zovi me u polje...
Ne mami me, zalud, da prošetamo minskim poljem, moj grešni sivomaslinasti brate...
Poturi nekog drugog Dobrovoljca na branike svoje nesposobnosti...
Okači drugu metu na svoje kartonske bedeme...
Nema Mojih u ovom Ratu Naših...
Ma znam...
Ne može to tek tako...
Čičak Izdaje se kači na sve strane. I meni će ga već neki mangup prilepiti na leđa, onako u prolazu, tapšući me po ramenu, tobož prijateljski...
Razmišljao sam o tome...
Koga izdati kad mi ostane da biram između nas dvoje?
I, žalim...
Ali prestar sam da bih izdao sebe, još jednom...
Zato odjebi, JNA...
Dosta je bilo...”
― Đorđe Balašević, Jedan od onih života

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“Udžbenik "Geografija za nepismene" izlazi dnevno, kao novine, Narod mora biti u toku šta mu je od jutros Domovina, a šta više nije? Šta ako još noćas neki Odbegli Robijaš, ili Psihopata Zamagljenih Naočara, izda proglas da se napadne druga strana reke, druga strana ulice, druga strana sebe?”
― Đorđe Balašević

tags: antiwar, pacifism

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“Provukla se kroz gužvu naizgled lako (kao da se priseća polke?), gaseći cipelicama neke zamišljene pikavce na podnom mozaiku, ali ja sam znao kako joj teško pada tih par koraka ka meni. U zadnji čas sam odlučio da ipak ne kažem glasno da ih je možda prekasno napravila? Rastojanje između nas definitivno se više nije moglo preći tek tako, prostim svakodnevnim koracima...”
― Đorđe Balašević

tags: arguments, poetic

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Knjigom u glavu — 1893 members — last activity 5 hours, 7 min ago
Knjiški klub za sve ljude s područja Balkana željnih rasprava o knjigama na materinjem jeziku =) Svi su dobrodošli. FB: https://www.facebook.com/Knj ...more

eSTUDENT grupa za ljubitelje knjiga — 14 members — last activity Oct 25, 2013 06:02AM
Ova je grupa napravljena za sve sadašnje i bivše članove eSTUDENTa, kao još jedno mjesto druženja :)

¡ POETRY ! — 22520 members — last activity Jun 10, 2026 03:03PM
No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read it!) Goodreads honors wordsmiths: poets and poetry promoted and prompted here. ~~~ "Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits." -- Carl Sandburg “God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.” —Anne Sexton On Clouds – “…what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about…” —Yevgeny Zamyatin “If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn’t wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.” —Donald Hall “Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.” —Boris Pasternak “Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.” —Charles Simic “Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.” —Gustave Flaubert “Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.” —Allen Ginsberg. ~~~~~ Amy King, Moderator Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the WNBA Award (Women’s National Book Association). Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. She serves on the executive board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and is co-editing with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology, Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change. She is also co-editing the anthology, Bettering American Poetry 2015, and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College. ...more