Dejan Stojanovic Quotes

A poet should leave traces of his passage, not proofs. Traces alone engender dreams.

Once, I was a poet, and, like all poets, I spent too long in the Kingdom of Dreams.

For Poesy alone can tell her dreams, With the fine spell of words alone can save Imagination from the sable charm And dumb enchantment. Who alive can say, ‘Thou art no Poet may’st not tell thy dreams?’ Since every man whose soul is not a clod Hath visions, and would speak, if he had loved And been well nurtured in his mother tongue. Whether the dream now purpos’d to rehearse Be poet’s or fanatic’s will be known When this warm scribe my hand is in the grave.

I get inspired at different times and in different ways.

No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.

Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements.

Some movies bring out the creativity in you. Every single audience member can become creative in the face of a particular movie. If you happen to like my films, it's because my films provide a bed for you on which you can find your creativity. The Hollywood movies do not provide that for you.

An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.

Fogs are like dreams that feed the soul, and without their mysterious embrace, childhood, courtship, poetry and the composition of music become all the more difficult.

What inspires a poem for me is usually a moment.

I can't work completely out of my imagination. I must put my foot in a bit of truth; and then I can fly free.

I'm not the best person at putting words together. I can't give you the melody. But I might inspire somebody.

I always look for inspiration, and the creativity of artists is an essential element to my life, my work, and my happiness.

The theoretician believes in logic and believes that he despises dreams, intuition, and poetry. He does not recognize that these three fairies have only disguised themselves in order to dazzle him.... He does not know that he owes his greatest discoveries to them.

I wake up from dreams and go, 'Wow, put this down on paper'. The whole thing is strange. You hear the words, everything is right there in front of your face.

I wake up with new dreams every day...more I can do to channel that into things that I love to create is healthier for me and probably for everybody around me.

Oft in dreams invention we bestow to change a flounce or add a furbelow.

I think every creative impulse that a working writer, or artist of any sort has, comes out of that dark old country where dreams come from.

Magic has often been thought of us the art of making dreams come true; the art of realizing visions. Yet before we can bring birth to the vision we have to see it.

I believe in dreams. People should have faith in the songs poets sing.

As I lay asleep in Italy There came a voice from over the Sea, And with great power it forth led me To walk in the visions of Poesy.

The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.

Symbolism and meaning are two separate things. I think she found the right words by bypassing procedures like meaning and logic. She captured words in a dream, like delicately catching hold of a butterfly’s wings as it flutters around. Artists are those who can evade the verbose.

You are the poet, you walk inside my dreams.

The heart makes dreams seem like ideas.