Writing poems
is simply an excuse
to remember You.
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Kamand Kojouri
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Kamand,
die every day
so you remember
to live.
KAMAND KOJOURI
I prefer the absurdity of writing poems
to the absurdity of not writing poems.
WISłAWA SZYMBORSKA Tea is just an excuse.
i am drinking this sunset, this evening.
and you.
SANOBER KHAN
You just wait.
Soon,
lovers all over the world
will be reciting poems
dedicate...
KAMAND KOJOURI
Mercy laughed. “You have to excuse them—boys suffer from an incurable disability.”
“Wh...
NALINI SINGH
I wonder
if you ever read my poems
and wish
they were written
for you.
KAMAND KOJOURI
Oak, granite,
Lilies by the road,
Remember me?
I remember you.
Clouds brushing GAIL CARSON LEVINE
they thought that writing had
something to do with
the politics of the
thing.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
If it is important to you, then you will find a way.
If not you'll find an excuse.
MEIR EZRA listen to my poems
but do not look for me
look for you.
NAYYIRAH WAHEED Do you use 'True Will' as an excuse to do nothing?
Have you declared yourself enlightened...
PETER J. CARROLL Where the cheerful children
of unwritten poems,
play all around,
you will find me the...
KHADIJA RUPA
When they try to judge you,
remember, they themselves are judged.
When they try to condemn...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Steven dreamed of you the very second
you died
(So the poem goes)
and you may h...
JON PAUL FIORENTINO
I know
you and I
are not about poems or
other sentimental bullshit
but I have t...
CLEMENTINE VON RADICS your smile.
is the ultimate
golden dream.
all the poems
in the world
are wa...
SANOBER KHAN I am
writing to all Australians registered in Indonesia
to urge you not to take chances:...
DAVID RITCHIE
It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for ...
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS
One day, I stopped hating.
I ceased all meaningless activity.
I completed the circle. I HENRY ROLLINS Poems can get
sleepless too
and become
the loneliest thing
in the un...
SANOBER KHAN
Glaring at the Gasman, ter Borcht said, “Your time is coming to an end, you
pathetic failure ...
JAMES PATTERSON
I think she loves him," Lissa said. "And love is needing someone.
Love is putting up with someo...
SARAH DESSEN
No Goodbye'
The floods of tears,
Flow for thee,
As I remember how it used to be...
ANTHONY T. HINCKS
I've written you sixty-seven love poems.
Here’s another one for you.
But really, for me....
KAMAND KOJOURI
Retrospect: the sweetener of life.
KAMAND KOJOURI
victim
noun \ˈvik-təm\
1. The moment you tell everyone you have a mental disorder...
SHANNON L. ALDER
These poems are cups
that I pour my love into.
Here,
Drink!
KAMAND KOJOURI
To see the Summer Sky
Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie—
True Poems flee—
EMILY DICKINSON When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens ...
C. K. WILLIAMS
Where were you
when
I undressed and told the tales of my day?
Where were you
w...
KAMAND KOJOURI
I will drive the world crazy
with love poems for you.
So they can know how magnificent you...
KAMAND KOJOURI
Humanity i love you because you
are perpetually putting the secret of
life in your pants a...
E.E. CUMMINGS some winters
will never melt
some summers
will never freeze
and some...
SANOBER KHAN
....LondonLane: I’m sure I don’t remember everything. I remember the future the way you remember...
CAT PATRICK I AM NOT A WRITER.
My characters simply commandeer my fingertips, writing their own destinies.
T.N. SUAREZ Remember The Dream
You have a choice
Your heart will know
You gotta look back s...
JAMES INGRAM
Roger speaking to Brianna:
It's too important. You don't forget having a dad."
You do rem...
DIANA GABALDON
Listen.
Do you see
that you can’t hear snowfall?
Look.
Do you sense
that...
KAMAND KOJOURI
Although I cannot see your face
As you flip these poems awhile,
Somewhere from some far-of...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN there are some poems
that we leave behind
some that leave us behind
while some ...
SANOBER KHAN You are writing a Gospel,
A chapter each day,
By deeds that you do,
By words that y...
PAUL B. GILBERT Grief is an emotional rollercoaster.
You will have your ups and downs
and moments of terro...
KATE MCGAHAN
As soon as we are born
we hide God in ourselves.
We then spend our lives looking for Him<...
KAMAND KOJOURI
I am going to build a fortress of books.
Will you come inside and live with me?
KAMAND KOJOURI
Excuse me, Abigail, but whose shift did she get away during?' Townsend asked with a glare.
ALLY CARTER
But Carroll's were more convoluted, and they struck me as funny in a new way:
1) Babies a...
STEVE MARTIN
Put up in a place
where it is easy to see
the cryptic admonishment
T.T.T
W...
PIET HEIN
Why do you paint?
For exactly the same reason I breathe.
Thats not an answer.
There is...
E. E. CUMMINGS How many remember where they were when the war began on the 1st of September 1939?
I rem...
DANIEL DELACY Maybe you leave
because you long to know.
Maybe you leave
not because of longing <...
MARISA DONNELLY
Why didn't you write all this time?
Did you not remember us in a song?
A dance?
In th...
KAMAND KOJOURI On behalf of Soumya..
You can love me
You can hate me
You can take me
You ...
BINTMALOL On behalf of Soumya..
-Zainab Zubair Malol
You can love me
You can hate me
You c...
BINTMALOL Remember to afford yourself
the same generosity
you give to others.
DOMONIQUE BERTOLUCCI
the writing of some
men
is like a vast bridge
that carries you
over
the man...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Death is that "Tomorrow" for which all our lives are spent waiting!
Man is constantly build...
IRVIN KAUFFMAN Darling,
do you remember
the man you married?
Touch me,
remind me who I am.
STANLEY KUNITZ
my poems are only bits of scratching
on the floor of a
cage.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
You write poems with your fingertips
And I keep listening to the songs written on my skin
...
SANHITA BARUAH Be yourself and your readers will follow you anywhere.
Try to commit an act of writing
and...
WILLIAM ZINNSER
But you love to play the good man,
don't you? Do you know what's worse than a villain? A villai...
JOE ABERCROMBIE
I don’t have any fancy story,
about the way we fell in love.
It was that one awkward mov...
JASLEEN KAUR GUMBER
Are you an optimist or a pessimist?"
"I can't remember. Which?"
"Do you know what those ...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER
O innocent victims of Cupid,
Remember this terse little verse:
To let a fool kiss you is stu...
E. Y. HARBURG The fact that I
am writing to you
in English
already falsifies what I
wanted to ...
GUSTAVO PEREZ FIRMAT When you change your dress,
you want to look your best.
But when you change your lover, ANTHONY T HINCKS
Are you afraid?"
"Yes."
"Energy never stops, remember. It just changes forms."...
AMIE KAUFMAN
We call a story about love
a love story.
We call a poem about love
a love poem. KAMAND KOJOURI Hello," Life says, "Remember me?
We started out together here
When you were just a bundle<...
JACOB NORDBY
I'm making a list
I'm making a list of things I must say
For politeness,
And goodness...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN We shall not sip from the same glass,
No water for us, or sweet wine;
We’ll not embrace ...
ANNA AHKMATOVA If you are afraid to write it,
that's a good sign.
I suppose you know when you're
wri...
YRSA DALEY-WARD
Bonnie, believe in me. I’ll save you.
I remember how to fly.
L.J. SMITH Death is that "Tomorrow" for which all our lives are spent waiting!
Man is constantly build...
IRVIN KAUFFMAN
WRITE YOURSELF OUT OF THE WRONG PLACE!
WRITING IS SPIRITUAL THERAPY✏
#HOPENA...
QWANA REYNOLDS-FRASIER 10 Steps to Becoming a Better Writer
Write.
Write more.
Write even more.
W...
BRIAN CLARK The amount of her madness
depends on the amount of her love.
If she is crazy, frantic, ins...
MELODY LEE
And there you are
on the shore,
fitful and thoughtful, trying
to attach them ...
MARY OLIVER
I don’t want to be remembered for my work. I want to be remembered for my love.
KAMAND KOJOURI
I love and enjoy writing.
Writing is a form of daily communication.
It a communication to ...
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
Your eyes are like heavy rain
falling from pregnant clouds.
With one glance, you washed ...
KAMAND KOJOURI
Now the tattoos," Zia announced.
"Brilliant!" I said.
"On your tongue," she added.
"E...
RICK RIORDAN
Juliette,” he says.
“Yes?”
I can hear him breathing.
“Thank...
TAHEREH MAFI
If I had to choose between all the books in the world and you, then I would choose to read your body...
KAMAND KOJOURI How in the fucking hell did you do that?"
Calyph shrugged. "I'm an Engineer," he said sim...
APRIL ADAMS
Blue jeans, white shirt
Walked into the room you know you made my eyes burn
It was like, J...
LANA DEL REY
I've discovered a way to stay friends forever -
There's really nothing to it.
I simply t...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN Deep in December
it's nice to remember
without a hurt
the heart is hollow.
TOM JONES Writing is a good excuse to think...
BENJAMIN L. STEWART
I declare
That later on,
Even in an age unlike our own,
Someone will remember who we ...
SAPPHO Image of a girl holding a blaster to a twin’s temple. “Remember, bi***. You can’t spell ‘dan...
M.T. ANDERSON
they simply never understand,
do they,
that sometimes solitude
is
one of the mos...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Writer's Block is just an excuse by people who don't write for not writing.
GIANDO SIGURANI
Remember to never split an infinitive.
The passive voice should never be used.
Do not put stat...
WILLIAM SAFIRE
Polyphemus stiffened. "Who said that?"
"Nobody!" Annabeth yelled.
That got exa...
RICK RIORDAN
You may not remember the time you let me go first.
Or the time you dropped back to tell me it ...
BRIAN ANDREAS
Carelessness is a disease.
KAMAND KOJOURI
Someday you shall meet someone
Who's gonna look at you in awe-
Flying high, wings all spre...
SANHITA BARUAH One Bagatelle, and I’ll raise you a novel,” Megan had tweeted back.
“Writing for te...
L.L. BARKAT
The Writer's Oath
I promise solemnly:
1. to write as often and as much as I ...
GAIL CARSON LEVINE
More Kamand Kojouri
We call a story about love
a love story.
We call a poem about love
a love poem. KAMAND KOJOURI
If on any given day you don't cry from rejoicing in the beauty of the world, then you have not lived...
KAMAND KOJOURI
God begets love.
KAMAND KOJOURI
These poems are cups
that I pour my love into.
Here,
Drink!
KAMAND KOJOURI
Let my silence grow with noise
as pregnant mothers grow with life.
Let my silence permea...
KAMAND KOJOURI
What happens when I love,
you ask, does the world start
making sense?
No, my dear,...
KAMAND KOJOURI
You’ll only know the answers once you love.
KAMAND KOJOURI
Put down your glass,
it is time to dance.
If you want to get drunk
all you need is...
KAMAND KOJOURI
I am certain,
my love,
that poetry was born
only after your birth.
KAMAND KOJOURI
Share yourself with me.
I will never judge you.
I am here
and I will stay here KAMAND KOJOURI
I see your pain
as clearly as I feel my own.
I will share your burden
so you feel it...
KAMAND KOJOURI
Like the cotton-carder who combs tangled cotton into a long bundle of fibre, you take all my knotted...
KAMAND KOJOURI
Having drunk the dregs of Your Love,
I am intoxicated beyond recognition.
Now, I only pr...
KAMAND KOJOURI
I am humbled by the grace of God.
I am humbled by the beauty of this universe.
Humbled by ...
KAMAND KOJOURI
The lover drinks
and the cup-bearer pours.
The lover thinks
but the cup-bearer knows:...
KAMAND KOJOURI
You must be more alive than life.
You must see darkness dance
and hear silence sing.
...
KAMAND KOJOURI
By loving you,
I learn everything
because your soul
contains the entire universe.
KAMAND KOJOURI
We seek the fire of the spark that is already within us.
KAMAND KOJOURI
One sip of this wine
and you will go mad with drunkenness.
You will drop your masks
KAMAND KOJOURI
We are all lost,
so lost, vulnerable and insecure.
We are separated from love at birth, ...
KAMAND KOJOURI
Polish the mirror of your heart
until it reflects every person's light.
KAMAND KOJOURI
Close your eyes.
Meditate on your love.
This is God.
KAMAND KOJOURI
I would rather lie facedown on the ground
and use my body as a bridge,
than stand proud ...
KAMAND KOJOURI
If your mind can move mountains
and swallow gods,
Why does it worry with helpless yesterda...
KAMAND KOJOURI
This is an ode to life.
The anthem of the world.
For as there are billions
of differe...
KAMAND KOJOURI
Find me.
Seduce me.
I want to be in love with you.
KAMAND KOJOURI
To see her is to be seduced by her.
KAMAND KOJOURI
I know you not quite well
Yet I foolishly surrender my mind to you.
Slowly and carefully ...
KAMAND KOJOURI
Seduce yourself first.
KAMAND KOJOURI
We dance to seduce ourselves. To fall in love with ourselves. When we dance with another, we manifes...
KAMAND KOJOURI
The reason as to why a human cannot give birth to himself is because he needs someone to help him. W...
KAMAND KOJOURI
The only path wide enough for us all is love.
KAMAND KOJOURI
Remember:
all the thoughts you have
of yourself and others
are written on your face...
KAMAND KOJOURI
Name and form are simply illusions of separation. Love doesn’t make us blind; rather, it erases th...
KAMAND KOJOURI
I can sense your love,
why leave me in darkness?
Beguile me for your amusement,
steal...
KAMAND KOJOURI
Poetry is jealous of you tonight,
for as soon as I come
to pen a few words,
your p...
KAMAND KOJOURI
If you wait until you find something to speak up for, something that you’re passionate about that ...
KAMAND KOJOURI
Our daily prayer ought to be:
Please universe, help me
help myself
and help me sho...
KAMAND KOJOURI
How freeing of a thought:
instead of worrying about leaving a legacy,
to leave no trace ...
KAMAND KOJOURI
I have drunk the night
and swallowed the stars.
I am dancing with abandon
and sing...
KAMAND KOJOURI
The reason as to why we are attracted to our opposites is because they are our salvation from the bu...
KAMAND KOJOURI
If I can’t be your love,
then let me be a simple brooch
so I may rest a while against ...
KAMAND KOJOURI
They want us to be afraid.
They want us to be afraid of leaving our homes.
They want us ...
KAMAND KOJOURI
What is life?
Life is living in this moment,
experiencing and experimenting
but ex...
KAMAND KOJOURI
The guilt you felt
when you were smiling
and others were suffering,
the guilt you ...
KAMAND KOJOURI
Happiness is exercising the little freedom that we have by choosing things that create harmony in ou...
KAMAND KOJOURI
At a night like this,
where it's just me and the yellow moon,
I feel complete.
KAMAND KOJOURI
The way you dress is how you greet the sun and other stars.
KAMAND KOJOURI
Why do you feel so powerless? Go spend an hour with ants. Each of those black specks you see is a li...
KAMAND KOJOURI
You do not have to be beautiful.
You do not even have to be intelligent.
All you have to d...
KAMAND KOJOURI
Believe me when I say:
'Out of all those around,
she’s the best locksmith in town.' KAMAND KOJOURI
You only feel powerless because your fear has given your power to the object of your fear. Once you ...
KAMAND KOJOURI
All this waiting.
Waiting for the rain to
stop. Waiting in traffic.
Waiting for the...
KAMAND KOJOURI
You have already lost if you are always fearful of losing everything.
KAMAND KOJOURI
Sometimes,
when inspiration runs dry,
I drink classical music
until my words spill...
KAMAND KOJOURI
Don’t make the mistake of looking down on your partner. You’re only on that pedestal because the...
KAMAND KOJOURI
We grow old judging others
And ourselves
Until life humbles us
And makes scared child...
KAMAND KOJOURI
For me,
you are fresh water
that falls from trees
when it has stopped raining. For me...
KAMAND KOJOURI
I think, therefore I am?
No, I simply am.
I am. I am. I am.
I will still be if I didn...
KAMAND KOJOURI
He knows all my thoughts.
He knows all I’ve ever done
and He loves me all the same. KAMAND KOJOURI
I became an artist because I wanted to be an active participant in the conversation about art.
KAMAND KOJOURI
This is a day of celebration!
Today, we are divorcing the past
and marrying the present. KAMAND KOJOURI
Art doesn’t give rise to anything in us that isn’t already there. It simply stirs our curious co...
KAMAND KOJOURI
Here's another poem,
like all others before and after,
dedicated to you.
There isn't ...
KAMAND KOJOURI
Some people are in such utter darkness that they will burn you just to see a light. Try not to take ...
KAMAND KOJOURI
The first time I heard you laugh,
I only wanted to say funny things
so you would always ...
KAMAND KOJOURI
The best traveler is one without a camera.
KAMAND KOJOURI
I was so blessed.
The first person
I gave my heart to
was an angel
who pluck...
KAMAND KOJOURI
I call you my soulmate
because I lost myself in you
and then found myself through you. <...
KAMAND KOJOURI
Now is not the time for bigots and racists. No time for sexists and homophobes. Now, more than ever,...
KAMAND KOJOURI
Nothing belongs to itself anymore.
These trees are yours because you once looked at them.
KAMAND KOJOURI
Lovers dream of one more embrace.
One more kiss.
One act of love, no matter how small.
KAMAND KOJOURI
Don’t say to yourself, ‘Everyone argues!’ to justify and normalise your fighting, when the mos...
KAMAND KOJOURI
Prejudice is an act of violence.
KAMAND KOJOURI
An act of violence, no matter how small, can never be justified if it can be avoided.
KAMAND KOJOURI
Love, the exotic bird,
came and went.
Heart forgot love.
Joy, the majestic willow, <...
KAMAND KOJOURI
Like a child who saves their favourite food on the plate for last, I try to save all thoughts of you...
KAMAND KOJOURI
I have become intoxicated again.
You are such a potent wine, my friend.
To escape your wit...
KAMAND KOJOURI
Everything I have become,
everything I will ever accomplish
cannot compare to my most
KAMAND KOJOURI
Violinists wear the imprint on their necks with pride
For they are the players of harmony.
KAMAND KOJOURI
I spent all night
weaving a poem for you
to wear. You look so beautiful
when you wea...
KAMAND KOJOURI
Eyes and ears are two.
Lungs and kidneys, too.
I wonder then
why we're born with one<...
KAMAND KOJOURI
Kiss your scars. Fall in love with them. They ought to serve as life-affirming reminders—a lingeri...
KAMAND KOJOURI
For all these stars,
nothing is new.
They’ve seen all kinds of wars
and miracles, t...
KAMAND KOJOURI
Like a pair of old slippers,
I feel comfort and
warmth as I slip into you.
No, that i...
KAMAND KOJOURI
You have to be transparent
so you no longer cast a shadow
but instead let the light pass...
KAMAND KOJOURI
She might not have read many books. But when she reads a book, she swallows the very words. If you o...
KAMAND KOJOURI
It is wonderful,
this whole business
of tickling and kissing
God every night.
KAMAND KOJOURI
If I had to choose between all the books in the world and you, then I would choose to read your body...
KAMAND KOJOURI
There is nothing I can do that won’t bring me back to you.
KAMAND KOJOURI
As soon as we are born
we hide God in ourselves.
We then spend our lives looking for Him<...
KAMAND KOJOURI
Whenever you keep score in love, you lose.
KAMAND KOJOURI
It offends me when you doubt my love.
These jealousies are unwarranted.
If only you lived ...
KAMAND KOJOURI
You have no choice. You must leave your ego on the doorstep before you enter love.
KAMAND KOJOURI
If only we studied the stars as much as we study our own reflections.
KAMAND KOJOURI
O woman,
father says natural is beautiful
so why do you redden your cheeks
and blac...
KAMAND KOJOURI
First, create your ego. Then destroy it. This is all of life.
KAMAND KOJOURI
Retrospect: the sweetener of life.
KAMAND KOJOURI
And then one day you realise that if you want to be rich, you'd have to give away almost everything ...
KAMAND KOJOURI
I write our names on the page.
What of it, if the paper will be burned?
I write our names ...
KAMAND KOJOURI
I used to be lost in us. Blurred were the lines that separated us. But now, I see our togetherness i...
KAMAND KOJOURI
Let us give thanks for our shadows
for they are there in the first place
because of the pr...
KAMAND KOJOURI
I am so tired.
I have grown old from being serious.
I have grown ill from being serious....
KAMAND KOJOURI
In the beginning was love, and love was with God, and love was God.
KAMAND KOJOURI
Put down your stones.
Why are you breaking the window
when God has left the door wide op...
KAMAND KOJOURI
Yes, silence is painful, but if you endure it, you will hear the cadence of the entire universe.
KAMAND KOJOURI
A negative outlook is dangerous. When you say, “It can’t get any worse!” You're essentially ch...
KAMAND KOJOURI
Think the tree that bears nutrition:
though the fruits are picked,
the plant maintains fr...
KAMAND KOJOURI
I don’t know why everyone
is still trying to find out
whether heaven and hell exist. KAMAND KOJOURI
You want to become a better person?
Just give thanks.
Give thanks for all of it.
KAMAND KOJOURI
It is a dangerous thing to substitute reading or writing for living. Live first, then write.
KAMAND KOJOURI
A poetess is not as selfish
as you assume.
After months of agonising
over her marria...
KAMAND KOJOURI
The first music I ever heard
was only one hundred and sixty days
after I was conceived. ...
KAMAND KOJOURI
A soulmate is a direct pathway to God.
KAMAND KOJOURI
Do not give them a candle to light the way, teach them how to make fire instead. That is the meaning...
KAMAND KOJOURI
If all we had were roses, would the thorns then be beautiful?
KAMAND KOJOURI
No one has any right to tell you that the way you perceive yourself is wrong. Because by doing so, t...
KAMAND KOJOURI
Do not avert your eyes.
It is important
that you see this.
It is important that you ...
KAMAND KOJOURI
He tried to measure his day
by tallying the hours on his wrist.
I wiped it off and called...
KAMAND KOJOURI
I am looking for the one I can’t fool.
KAMAND KOJOURI
We cannot hunt for love.
We can only surrender
and become love’s prey.
KAMAND KOJOURI
I was mistaken
when I said you
live in my heart.
How absurd I was
when you l...
KAMAND KOJOURI
What can I tell you
about the alchemy of twins?
Twins are
two bodies that dance KAMAND KOJOURI
Do not be frightened, friend. Let us dance our way to God.
KAMAND KOJOURI
I only wrote prose before I met you.
My musings were superfluous and serious as well.
Bu...
KAMAND KOJOURI
Forget your voice, sing!
Forget your feet, dance!
Forget your life, live!
Forget your...
KAMAND KOJOURI
My mind is being consumed by you.
My body is longing for you.
Just one touch or a kiss, <...
KAMAND KOJOURI
Is it odd, my love,
that I envy others
who have not met you
for the intoxication t...
KAMAND KOJOURI
Babies cry at birth because it is the first time they experience separation from love.
KAMAND KOJOURI
The greatest thinkers
have attempted to find
who we are
where we come from
a...
KAMAND KOJOURI
Be like the sun who fell in love with the moon and shared all his light.
KAMAND KOJOURI
Missing you,
I missed a part of me
I shared with you
that’s now gone.
M...
KAMAND KOJOURI
Disappointment is a blessing. If you were never disappointed, you'd never know what was important to...
KAMAND KOJOURI
Do not go to my grave.
Mary knows, I am not there.
Look for me in between pages
an...
KAMAND KOJOURI
I am going to build a fortress of books.
Will you come inside and live with me?
KAMAND KOJOURI
Listen.
Do you see
that you can’t hear snowfall?
Look.
Do you sense
that...
KAMAND KOJOURI
I cannot imagine how much I must’ve suffered in my previous lives to be fortunate enough to have p...
KAMAND KOJOURI
It’s so easy to lose faith and become lost in all of the politics of the world. That’s why we ne...
KAMAND KOJOURI
Why wait to forgive and let go only after you have sufficiently wallowed in your despair? Why not fo...
KAMAND KOJOURI
Your eyes are like heavy rain
falling from pregnant clouds.
With one glance, you washed ...
KAMAND KOJOURI
I see them
and they see me
but the lovers —
we recognise one another:
ther...
KAMAND KOJOURI
We are told that in translation there is no such thing as equivalence. Many times the translator rea...
KAMAND KOJOURI
What you choose also chooses you.
KAMAND KOJOURI
Mist to mist, drops to drops. For water thou art, and unto water shalt thou return.
KAMAND KOJOURI
The thing about love is that you will never run out of it. It's an ever-flowing river. So go ahead a...
KAMAND KOJOURI
The only thing necessary in this world is love. Everything else is secondary.
KAMAND KOJOURI
Two things are needed to raise awareness: education and love. And these go hand in hand because we c...
KAMAND KOJOURI
We reveal most about ourselves when we speak about others.
KAMAND KOJOURI
Ignorance might be bliss. But self-forgetfulness is pure ecstasy.
KAMAND KOJOURI
Die every night so in the morning you are reborn.
KAMAND KOJOURI
Reading poetry is like undressing before a bath. You don't undress out of fear that your clothes wil...
KAMAND KOJOURI
To live with you is to live.
To live without you is to die.
KAMAND KOJOURI
Can we share my eyes
so you can see what I see?
Can we share my ears
so you can hea...
KAMAND KOJOURI
I couldn’t have dreamed you into existence because I didn’t even know I needed you. You must hav...
KAMAND KOJOURI
I'm not here to grant you the extraordinary love you never had for yourself. I'm here, on my own acc...
KAMAND KOJOURI
Does God know
the number of kisses
before we fall in love?
Yesterday, I was nobody KAMAND KOJOURI
The only path wide for us all is love.
KAMAND KOJOURI
I've written you sixty-seven love poems.
Here’s another one for you.
But really, for me....
KAMAND KOJOURI
What is this love
that makes me see beauty,
and makes every beautiful thing
bring yo...
KAMAND KOJOURI
Take me when I'm wild.
Take me when I'm free.
Take me for me
and I will take you
KAMAND KOJOURI
The greatest thing about me isn’t even a part of me. It’s you.
KAMAND KOJOURI
Why didn't you write all this time?
Did you not remember us in a song?
A dance?
In th...
KAMAND KOJOURI
With you, I am. Without you, I am not.
KAMAND KOJOURI
I love you so much
I want to share you
with yourself.
I know you do not insist
KAMAND KOJOURI
Your omnipresence is marvellous!
I breathe and you enter me.
I exhale and enter into you.
KAMAND KOJOURI
You just wait.
Soon,
lovers all over the world
will be reciting poems
dedicate...
KAMAND KOJOURI
You are my favourite part of life.
KAMAND KOJOURI
How is it possible, you ask, for love to be greater than the person who does the loving? That’s be...
KAMAND KOJOURI
I write because the security of your love allows me to develop my craft without concerning myself wi...
KAMAND KOJOURI
Why this candle?
Why this cake?
The day of my birth
is not today.
I was born KAMAND KOJOURI
We start a relationship with someone not only because of how great they are but how great they make ...
KAMAND KOJOURI
Being deeply, passionately, and intensely in love is being deeply, passionately, and intensely in li...
KAMAND KOJOURI
I’m a winner because I always bet on you.
KAMAND KOJOURI
Speak to me: I will spend my lifetime trying to understand you.
KAMAND KOJOURI
How is it
that there was never you
until there was
and then all was you?
KAMAND KOJOURI
I came to
pen another poem for you,
but even every unwritten poem
is you.
KAMAND KOJOURI
If love weighs you down
and casts a shadow on your life
then it isn’t love.
Love KAMAND KOJOURI
I will drive the world crazy
with love poems for you.
So they can know how magnificent you...
KAMAND KOJOURI
I fell in love
and then
I became
love.
KAMAND KOJOURI
Love, they said, burns you
and builds you.
But with you,
there’s no ash.
Just...
KAMAND KOJOURI
All I need to do
is place my pen against paper
and your love
writes for me.
KAMAND KOJOURI
Let us remember to
always rediscover one another
because we are
forever changing.
KAMAND KOJOURI
Of course, I am religious.
I worship love.
KAMAND KOJOURI
My love,
you are driving the entire world mad.
The nightingales are committing suicide <...
KAMAND KOJOURI
I remember our childhood days
when life was easy
and math problems hard.
Mom would he...
KAMAND KOJOURI
I don’t mind losing
in this game of love,
if it means You
will be the winner.
KAMAND KOJOURI
Everywhere I go,
your beauty spills
into my day.
The trees were
never this v...
KAMAND KOJOURI
I love you.
I love you a thousand times.
I love you an irrational number.
And I will...
KAMAND KOJOURI
I never wanted to be a martyr—even for love. I don’t want to die for love. I want to live for it...
KAMAND KOJOURI
May we always be burdened with thinking of the suffering of others, for that is what it means to be ...
KAMAND KOJOURI
Forgiveness is a transformative act because it asks you to be a more empathetic and compassionate pe...
KAMAND KOJOURI
Don't let a cruel word escape your mouth. There's no greater sin than breaking a heart.
KAMAND KOJOURI
Classical music is the best, and cheapest, mind-altering drug in the world.
KAMAND KOJOURI
Because even if you spend your life chasing the immaterial, listening to the most exquisite classica...
KAMAND KOJOURI
A spark
of every fire we seek
is already within us.
KAMAND KOJOURI
Usually, when I dream of flying
I am simply flapping my arms
and somehow I lift off and ...
KAMAND KOJOURI
My love,
we can close our eyes
but we cannot stop the sunrise.
KAMAND KOJOURI
It doesn’t matter whether you are looking for a reason to be happy or sad, you will always find it...
KAMAND KOJOURI
Extremities are flawed.
Moderation is ideal, save for one occasion.
So damn these eyes th...
KAMAND KOJOURI
I have died at the ripe age of twenty.
Smile, for the world didn't get a chance to disappoint m...
KAMAND KOJOURI