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How does one say something new and not retell?
Dejan Stojanovic
Fly without wings; Dream with open eyes; See in darkness.
Long ago we conquered our passions looking at ourselves in the mirror of eternity.
There is always the question why And there is always life, Which doesn't need an answer.
He thought others were small; that was his greatness.
The most complicated skill is to be simple.
It is beautiful to talk about beautiful things and even more beautiful to silently gaze at them.
Everything that looks too perfect is too perfect to be perfect.
Either all lights are turned off or one inner light is missing.
Is it possible to write a poem or are these words just screams of outlaws exiled to the desert?
To cut and tighten sentences is the secret of mastery.
To be stories at all they must be a series of events: but it must be understood that this series - the plot, as we call it - is only really a new whereby to catch something else.
C.S. Lewis
From whichever side I start, I think I am in an old place where others have been before me.
Heavenly bodies are nests of invisible birds.
Nature is an outcry, unpolished truth; the art a euphemism tamed wilderness.
Love is almost never simple.
Nothing is made, nothing disappears. The same changes, at the same places, never stopping.
A hidden spark of the dream sleeps In the forest and waits In the celestial spheres of the brain.
Even great men bow before the Sun; it melts hubris into humility.
Words rich in meaning can be cheap in sound effects.