Jovan Dučić

Jovan Dučić (Serbian Cyrillic: Јован Дучић; 15 February 1872 – 7 April 1943) was a Bosnian Serb poet-diplomat and academic.

Quotes

• Мирна као мрамор, хладна као сена,
  Ти се бледо тихо девојче што снева.
  Пусти песма других нека буде жена,
  Која по нечистим улицама пева.
  • Staidness of marble, coolness the shadow strews,
    Thou are a still, pale maid, all pondering;
    Let songs of others be as a woman, whose
    Wont it is in the unclean streets to sing.
  • "Поезија", st. 1; translated by Paul Selver, "My Poetry", Anthology of Modern Slavonic Literature in Prose and Verse (1919), p. 288

External links

• Encyclopedic article on Jovan Dučić on Wikipedia