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If I had an eagle's wings
I would rise and fly on them
To our shores, to our own parts,
To See St...
poem by Konstantin Miladinov
(An excerpt from the epic The Baptism at The Savica)

The warring clouds have vanished from the sk...
poem by France Preseren
Strumicki Carnival

March 8th, 2011
Strumica, Macedonia

The Strumica Carnival is an annual fes...
article by Daniel
The vintage, friends, is over,
And here sweet wine makes, once again,
Sad eyes and hearts recove...
poem by France Preseren
A patriot be - for knowledge, freedom,
The soul's too small a price to pay!
Mind you, not his soul...
poem by Hristo Botev
O my God, my righteous God.
Not you, in heaven apart,
but you, who are within me, God -
within my...
poem by Hristo Botev
Never whisper to the deaf, or wink at the blind....
quote by Slovenian Proverb
Put aside that song of love,
do not fill my heart with pain -
I'm young but I don't know of youth
...
poem by Hristo Botev
O, Vrba, happy village, my old home -
My father's cottage stands there to this day.
The lure of le...
poem by France Preseren
"What do you seek here among us?" the son of the desert asked me as we were watering our h...
poem by Vladimir Fran Mazuranic
I my secret drawer I have a marvelous glass. A welcome-cup when I am merry, a chalice when I am mour...
poem by Antun Gustav Matos
Our feelings have made of us brothers
and our hidden thoughts have a same set,
I do not believe th...
poem by Hristo Botev
What if we still carry shame on our forehead,
Marks of the whip, signs of bondage abhorrent;
What ...
poem by Ivan Vazov
A Slovene wreath your poet has entwined;
A record of my pain and of your praise,
Since from my h...
poem by France Preseren
Was it you, mother, with your tearful song,
was it you who cursed me three years' long
to be a luc...
poem by Hristo Botev
A suicide in front of a mirror.
A frightened soul.
The wind moans in the black woods.
The night'...
poem by Srecko Kosovel
Hurry, stranger, quickly come
to your father's home at last,
do a dance before his home,
join the...
poem by Hristo Botev
It's difficult to live, my brother,
among such thick-skulled blunderheads;
the fires of my youth a...
poem by Hristo Botev
Above a madhouse is strolling
a moonstruck moon.
A Shadow-man is walking around a white garden
ab...
poem by Srecko Kosovel
I love you, the grey face in the grey
window of the coffee house - the face
with expectations.-
I...
poem by Srecko Kosovel
I love the mournful shadow, the dozing light: light which dreams of the night. I love the shadow, tw...
poem by Antun Gustav Matos
The sun is autumn calm
as though in mourning;
behind the slender cypress trees
behind the white w...
poem by Srecko Kosovel
A tight and chiming string
that resounds to anything—
a single stroke or evil blow—
always ...
poem by Ivan Vazov
Our eyes were flooded
with burning lava.
And the grey dust
of cement towers
burnt our lips. ...
poem by Srecko Kosovel
From far abroad, from across the sea, from the glowing south, the messengers of spring, the beloved ...
poem by Rikard Katalinic Jeretov
(The Defence of Perushtitsa)


O stirring of glory, O sombre sad stirring,
Days of proud struggl...
poem by Ivan Vazov
They were surprised that I still know Croatian though now so many years absent from my native land. ...
poem by Vladimir Fran Mazuranic
A foolish fox is caught by one leg, but a wise one by all four....
quote by Serbian Proverb quote
Who is yet courageous and today will say: you will need to repent when you discover that you have de...
poem by Augustin Ujevic
What was the need of you, little one,
My baby dear, my darling son,
To me - a girl, a foolish yo...
poem by France Preseren
Naples Sea, you're amazing at night
With the Zephyr's scarf unrolled,
When your blue, crystal wa...
poem by Ivan Vazov
My life! Do not remind me that it is miserable, wretched, drowsy, entirely downtrodden and depressed...
poem by Augustin Ujevic
He who from fate receives but blow on blow,
Who, like myself in her disfavour stands,
Although h...
poem by France Preseren
You could think that darkness
is so scary strong,
powerful and dreadful,
and—you would...
poem by Jovan Jovanovic Zmaj
It is easier to believe than to go and ask....
quote by Serbian Proverb quote
Our windows are barred.
White barricades.
The American Indians know nothing
of gravity.
But ...
poem by Srecko Kosovel
I was eight years old when they built the port in Novi. At that age most children know how to swim â...
poem by Vladimir Fran Mazuranic
They became the wind's brothers; the hurricane is their sister. With wings spread now again and agai...
poem by Rikard Katalinic Jeretov
It is easier to believe than to go and ask....
quote by Slovenian Proverb
Hey, hey: it's raining on the houses of Ljubljana,
and they curtain themselves in grey against the ...
poem by Srecko Kosovel
God knows why he has made the wings of some birds shorter....
quote by Slovenian Proverb
Don't measure a wolf's tail until he is dead....
quote by Croatian Proverb
All roads do not lead to Rome....
quote by Slovenian Proverb
Man's life is like a drop of dew on a leaf....
quote by Slovenian Proverb
A greedy father has thieves for children....
quote by Serbian Proverb quote
Winter either bites with its teeth or lashes with its tail....
quote by Montenegrin Proverb
Check before you bite if it is bread or a stone....
quote by Croatian Proverb
A good friend is worth more than a bad brother....
quote by Croatian Proverb
A doorstep is the highest of all mountains....
quote by Slovenian Proverb
Even a dog will not eat a leg without flesh....
quote by Croatian Proverb
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