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Vatra i ništa
Izbor iz poezije.
„Pesma nije život, niti pesnikov život, ona je paralelna životu[...] Ona samu sebe stvara, preuređuje se iznutra, svojim vlastitim krvotokom se hrani, sprečava da išta u nju uđe i oduzme joj dah. Zaštićena je od korozije vremena. Spolja je fosil, iznutra živi organizam. Ničemu ne može da služi, jer sve njoj služi“, rekao je Branko Miljković, pesnik za kojim su ostali neizbrisiv trag u srpskoj poeziji i zagonetna smrt.
Objavio je zbirke „Uzalud je budim“ (1957), „Smrću protiv smrti“ (1959, sa Blažom Šćepanovićem), „Vatra i ništa“ (1960, Oktobarska nagrada), „Poreklo nade“ (1960) i „Krv koja svetli“ (1961), ali je mnogo pesama ostalo i van tih zbirki.
Stvarajući od reči i stihova simbole koji dobijaju svoju stvarnost, naseljavajući svet tim realizovanim slikama, Miljković je uzdigao hermetičnu poeziju do bitnog elementa koji ispunjava naše živote. A to je moguće samo pomoću plamtećih reči, goruće tradicije i saživljavanja s ništavilom.
„On, unuk simbolista i nadrealista, kako je sam za sebe govorio, svojom sudbinom učinio je pesništvo ’dostignućem krajnje lepote i nezamenljivosti’.“
– Božidar Šujica
„Branko Miljković (1934–1961) nije morao umrijeti da bi postao priznat i slavan; već je to bio za svog kratkog života. Iz pjesničke generacije šezdesetih, Miljković je odmah nazvan ’princem poezije’ i odmah svrstan u red velikih pjesnika.“
– Mirko Kovač
„Pesma nije život, niti pesnikov život, ona je paralelna životu[...] Ona samu sebe stvara, preuređuje se iznutra, svojim vlastitim krvotokom se hrani, sprečava da išta u nju uđe i oduzme joj dah. Zaštićena je od korozije vremena. Spolja je fosil, iznutra živi organizam. Ničemu ne može da služi, jer sve njoj služi“, rekao je Branko Miljković, pesnik za kojim su ostali neizbrisiv trag u srpskoj poeziji i zagonetna smrt.
Objavio je zbirke „Uzalud je budim“ (1957), „Smrću protiv smrti“ (1959, sa Blažom Šćepanovićem), „Vatra i ništa“ (1960, Oktobarska nagrada), „Poreklo nade“ (1960) i „Krv koja svetli“ (1961), ali je mnogo pesama ostalo i van tih zbirki.
Stvarajući od reči i stihova simbole koji dobijaju svoju stvarnost, naseljavajući svet tim realizovanim slikama, Miljković je uzdigao hermetičnu poeziju do bitnog elementa koji ispunjava naše živote. A to je moguće samo pomoću plamtećih reči, goruće tradicije i saživljavanja s ništavilom.
„On, unuk simbolista i nadrealista, kako je sam za sebe govorio, svojom sudbinom učinio je pesništvo ’dostignućem krajnje lepote i nezamenljivosti’.“
– Božidar Šujica
„Branko Miljković (1934–1961) nije morao umrijeti da bi postao priznat i slavan; već je to bio za svog kratkog života. Iz pjesničke generacije šezdesetih, Miljković je odmah nazvan ’princem poezije’ i odmah svrstan u red velikih pjesnika.“
– Mirko Kovač
288 pages, Hardcover
Published February 1, 2022
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Branko Miljković
42 books63 followersBranko Miljković was an iconic Serbian poet. He was best known across Yugoslavia and the Soviet bloc for his influential writings. He died prematurely in 1961 at the age of 27, found hanging from a tree in Zagreb. This controversial incident was officially recorded as a suicide. In his one-line poem "Epitaph," he writes "Ubi me prejaka reč" ("I was killed by too strong a word") almost sensing his premature end of life.
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August 2, 2024
ali:
hoće li sloboda umeti da peva
kao što su sužnji pevali o njoj
hoće li sloboda umeti da peva
kao što su sužnji pevali o njoj
August 17, 2018
Branko je, ako ne najbolji, onda najveći pesnik ovih prostora!
Po ko zna koji put čitam ovu zbirku i svaki put se oduševim kao da je prvi put prelistavam.
Ako je pisanje umetnost jezika, onda je Miljković veliki umetnik!
Po ko zna koji put čitam ovu zbirku i svaki put se oduševim kao da je prvi put prelistavam.
Ako je pisanje umetnost jezika, onda je Miljković veliki umetnik!
November 12, 2024
Ako kažemo
Ako kažemo
rekli smo što nismo hteli reći
Ako ćutimo nismo ništa rekli
ali smo mnogo prećutali.
Svaka reč znači ono
što znači njeno ćutanje.
When We Say
When we say
we've said what we didn't want to say
When we stay silent we've said nothing
but we've hidden a lot.
Every word means the same
as its own silence.
Branko Miljković died prematurely in 1961 at the age of 27. He was found hanging from a tree in Zagreb, a controversial incident that was officially recorded as a suicide. He was born in Niš to a Serb father and a Croat mother.
He is sometimes called "the Serbian prince of poets", having influenced all that followed, was a close friend of Sartre and leader of the Neo-Symbolist movement which had the mission of bringing together Surrealism and Symbolism.
He famously refused membership and connection with the Communist Party of Yugoslavia which brought about a hostile atmosphere from his social circle and from a government that wouldn't publish his poetry, but his obvious talent found great success with the people - his verses have been used in many songs, including by my beloved Bijelo Dugme, the most popular band ever to exist in the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and one of the most notable acts of the Yugoslav rock scene and Yugoslav popular music in general.
"Ko ne sluša pjesmu, slušaće oluju."
(He who does not listen to song shall be listening to storms - from the song Pljuni I zapjevaj, Spit and Sing)
To this day, there is no concrete conclusion about his death.
“Ubi me prejaka reč. Ne stigoh da se sklonim."
Branko Miljković's name is not known to a wide audience of Europe or the world, mostly due to the geopolitical circumstances in post-war Europe, here is a great article about this great writer's short life.
Bonus:
Everyone will write poetry
A dream is an ancient and forgotten truth
that no one knows how to verify
now a stranger sings who is sea and worry
east is west of west false movement is the fastest
now wisdom and birds sing my neglected diseases
a flower between ashes and fragrance
those who refuse to survive love
and lovers that turn back time,
a garden whose scents the earth does not recognize
and an earth that remains faithful to death
because this world is not the only concern of the sun, but one day
where the heart was, the sun will stand
and there will be no such words in human speech
that will if the song renounces
poetry, everyone will write
the truth will be present in all the words
in the places where the song is the most beautiful,
the one who first sang will retire,
leaving the song to others,
I accept the great thought of future poetics:
an unhappy man cannot be a poet, I accept the condemnation of singing crowds:
WHO CANNOT LISTEN TO A SONG WILL LISTEN TO A STORM
but:
WILL FREEDOM BE ABLE TO SING
LIKE THE SLAVES SANG ABOUT HER?
Ako kažemo
rekli smo što nismo hteli reći
Ako ćutimo nismo ništa rekli
ali smo mnogo prećutali.
Svaka reč znači ono
što znači njeno ćutanje.
When We Say
When we say
we've said what we didn't want to say
When we stay silent we've said nothing
but we've hidden a lot.
Every word means the same
as its own silence.
Branko Miljković died prematurely in 1961 at the age of 27. He was found hanging from a tree in Zagreb, a controversial incident that was officially recorded as a suicide. He was born in Niš to a Serb father and a Croat mother.
He is sometimes called "the Serbian prince of poets", having influenced all that followed, was a close friend of Sartre and leader of the Neo-Symbolist movement which had the mission of bringing together Surrealism and Symbolism.
He famously refused membership and connection with the Communist Party of Yugoslavia which brought about a hostile atmosphere from his social circle and from a government that wouldn't publish his poetry, but his obvious talent found great success with the people - his verses have been used in many songs, including by my beloved Bijelo Dugme, the most popular band ever to exist in the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and one of the most notable acts of the Yugoslav rock scene and Yugoslav popular music in general.
"Ko ne sluša pjesmu, slušaće oluju."
(He who does not listen to song shall be listening to storms - from the song Pljuni I zapjevaj, Spit and Sing)
To this day, there is no concrete conclusion about his death.
“Ubi me prejaka reč. Ne stigoh da se sklonim."
Branko Miljković's name is not known to a wide audience of Europe or the world, mostly due to the geopolitical circumstances in post-war Europe, here is a great article about this great writer's short life.
Bonus:
Everyone will write poetry
A dream is an ancient and forgotten truth
that no one knows how to verify
now a stranger sings who is sea and worry
east is west of west false movement is the fastest
now wisdom and birds sing my neglected diseases
a flower between ashes and fragrance
those who refuse to survive love
and lovers that turn back time,
a garden whose scents the earth does not recognize
and an earth that remains faithful to death
because this world is not the only concern of the sun, but one day
where the heart was, the sun will stand
and there will be no such words in human speech
that will if the song renounces
poetry, everyone will write
the truth will be present in all the words
in the places where the song is the most beautiful,
the one who first sang will retire,
leaving the song to others,
I accept the great thought of future poetics:
an unhappy man cannot be a poet, I accept the condemnation of singing crowds:
WHO CANNOT LISTEN TO A SONG WILL LISTEN TO A STORM
but:
WILL FREEDOM BE ABLE TO SING
LIKE THE SLAVES SANG ABOUT HER?
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December 2, 2024ја се дивим људима који ово разумеју
едит: стихови који су ми се допали
едит: стихови који су ми се допали
ако смо пали били смо паду склони
љубави моја мртва а ипак жива
о све што прође вечност једна бива
и нема мене ал има љубави моје
јер и пад је лет док се не падне
ко не уме да слуша песму слушаће олују
али:
хоће ли слобода умети да пева
као што су сужњи певали о њој
уби ме прејака реч
ово упињање да се каже све
неће нас одвести даље од нас самих
ма шта рекао нећеш из себе изаћи не
што више говоримо све смо више сами
будим је због зоре због љубави због себе због других
будим је мада је то узалудније него ли дозивати птицу заувек слетелу
сигурно је рекла: нека ме тражи и види да ме нема
та жена са рукама детета коју волим
то дете које је заспало не обрисавши сузе које будим
узалуд узалуд узалуд
узалуд је будим
јер ће се пробудити друкчија и нова
узалуд је будим
јер њена уста неће моћи да је кажу
узалуд је будим
September 11, 2022
One of the clearest, brightest poetic voices in the (classic) South Slavic Canon.
Great mastery of metaphor and language.
One of the peaks in the sameself Canon (along, say, Vasko Popa in poetry, and Ivo Andrić, Miloš Crnjanski and Vladan Desnica in prose.
Great starting point for the serious student of the Slavic Literary Modernism.
Great mastery of metaphor and language.
One of the peaks in the sameself Canon (along, say, Vasko Popa in poetry, and Ivo Andrić, Miloš Crnjanski and Vladan Desnica in prose.
Great starting point for the serious student of the Slavic Literary Modernism.
June 1, 2022
HOĆE LI SLOBODA UMETI DA PEVA
KAO ŠTO SU SUŽNJI PEVALI O NJOJ?
Nijedna od pesama se ne izdvaja u ovoj zbirci, ali je svaka solidna i prikazuje Miljkovićevu ogromnu snagu duha. Vredelo je pročitati je, a preporučujem i čitanje predgovora kako bi se stekao bolji uvid u njegov život i prerano stradanje..
KAO ŠTO SU SUŽNJI PEVALI O NJOJ?
Nijedna od pesama se ne izdvaja u ovoj zbirci, ali je svaka solidna i prikazuje Miljkovićevu ogromnu snagu duha. Vredelo je pročitati je, a preporučujem i čitanje predgovora kako bi se stekao bolji uvid u njegov život i prerano stradanje..
October 25, 2024
Feels weird even attempting to rate this - one of the greatest poets we've had and one of my forever favourites. Revisted this classic during autumn again and I feel it on an even deeper level than I did before. ❤
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January 27, 2023„Неки ће свемир поново да нас створи.”
March 23, 2023
„A ime je njeno i njeno je biće”
Maestralan pesnik.
Maestralan pesnik.
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July 28, 2023dnf srry
August 19, 2024
"Jer i pad je let dok se ne padne"
"Neka niče cveće iz prokletog tla"
"Ptica koja sama čini jato"
"Ako smo pali, bili smo padu skloni."
"Neka niče cveće iz prokletog tla"
"Ptica koja sama čini jato"
"Ako smo pali, bili smo padu skloni."
December 3, 2024
„Smrtonosan je život, ali smrti odoleva“
May 1, 2024
HOCE LI SLOBODA UMETI DA PEVA KAO STO SU SUZNJI PEVALI O NJOJ
December 7, 2016
branko ne staje u 5 ⭐, on zaslužuje mnogo više ♥
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