Serbian Satire and Aphorisms Quotes

“Blind people are the best audience; they will be treated according to the formula; it’s easy to excite them; it’s easy to wake them up from a dream in which they dull, mute and helpless, await excitement—another product of the plastic reality, another star-studded name.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian Satire and Aphorisms

“Names sound nice because no one peeks behind the cover to see the sad face of a poem crying for meaning, while the name of the creator proudly smiles from the title.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian Satire and Aphorisms

“There are literary works that speak for themselves and there are writers who boast through work.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian Satire and Aphorisms

“There are anonymous poems and poets without poems.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian Satire and Aphorisms

“A versifier arranges words and rhymes into verses; a poet arranges verses and rhymes into meanings.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian Satire and Aphorisms

“They forget that love is not a science but an inherent state of mind; they forget that sex is practiced by animals without textbooks and that it is not such a secret that requires a complete science, courses and special training. And so impotent, with artificial stars on the ceilings of their rooms, they become the main teachers on the way to the stars.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian Satire and Aphorisms

“Unwritten words grow out of silence.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian Satire and Aphorisms

“The world of numbers and words is odd. A number is the only word that doesn’t lie and words can be very deceitful; they create the illusion that a large number hides a great word.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian Satire and Aphorisms

“It is easy to arrange the words in a story born out of a dream; for a story without a dream, a story itself is not enough.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian Satire and Aphorisms

“A versifier’s poem is born by the sound; a poet’s sound is born by the poem.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian Satire and Aphorisms

“A versifier passes through the sound; sounds go through a poet.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian Satire and Aphorisms

“To a versifier, sounds are the means and the aim; a poet travels toward the aim using sounds.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian Satire and Aphorisms

“A versifier arranges sounds; a poet arranges meaning in the sounds.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian Satire and Aphorisms

“In a real poem a sound does not swallow a letter, but a letter swallows a sound.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian Satire and Aphorisms

“Everything passes through the eyes of top bureaucrats who closely watch to ensure that no intruder can enter their ranks and disrupt the order and arrangement of values in which everything is predetermined and where everyone knows their place, everyone’s potential, talent and position in history.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian Satire and Aphorisms

“Through memory to knowledge on the way to stars that are stepping down to the stuffy rooms of modern bureaucrats, illuminating their ceilings, their horizons where everything is easily resolved by the piles of paper and recipes for how to live, create, run, eat, breathe, learn how to love, how to make love, how to sleep, how to dream, how happiness is achieved under the artificial stars of the new sky that emerged from the bureaucratic rooms of aspiring and impotent minds, unable to love, even though they had all their life to learn what they preach.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian Satire and Aphorisms

“Everything is much easier in the half-blind and half-deaf world of modern giants that seduce processions of the blind into the world of great emptiness. In their sky the stars shine and their names live in the parallel and independently of their work.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian Satire and Aphorisms

“There are too many literati, yet very few are smart; knowledge is acquired far too easily.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian Satire and Aphorisms

“A right word counts the silence; a bad word is counted by the page.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian Satire and Aphorisms

“In its proper role, a number counts the missing words.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian Satire and Aphorisms

“A number is still very accurate, but its role is changed.
In the changed role this number enriches the silence.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian Satire and Aphorisms

“The length of novels, poems and stories, is measured by the number of missing words; a thousand pages become one, one becomes a thousand.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian Satire and Aphorisms

“We don’t know who was tricked by whom. Did the writer deceive the word, or did the word deceive the writer?”
― Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian Satire and Aphorisms

“Words do not choose their company or discriminate among the people who use them.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian Satire and Aphorisms

“A well paid word deceives them. And what kind of a word is a word that has a price, high or low, which is adjusted to the price of fame, and how, long ago, when it was little appreciated, was it more valuable than it is today with a big price?”
― Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian Satire and Aphorisms

“A word was more valuable to them when they were not sure of its value. Since they became famous, their word has been more expensive but its value is less.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian Satire and Aphorisms

“Many writers were better before they became famous.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian Satire and Aphorisms

“Knowing how to dream is more important than the story, because the story tells itself.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian Satire and Aphorisms

“There are those who speak and those who dream.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian Satire and Aphorisms

“A poem is its own name and cover.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian Satire and Aphorisms