Kamand Kojouri Quotes

All this waiting.Waiting for the rain to stop. Waiting in traffic. Waiting for the bill. Waiting at the airport for an old friend.Waiting to depart. Then, there’s the big waiting: waiting to grow up. Waiting for love. Waiting to show youryour parents that when you have kids you’ll be different. Waiting to retire. Waiting for death. Why do we think waitingis the antithesis of lifewhen it is almostall of it?

~ Kamand Kojouri

Kamand, die every dayso you rememberto live.

~ Kamand Kojouri

No one has any right to tell you that the way you perceive yourself is wrong. Because by doing so, they also discourage the person you aspire to be.

~ Kamand Kojouri

The greatest thing about me isn’t even a part of me. It’s you.

~ Kamand Kojouri

To see her is to be seduced by her.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Prejudice is an act of violence.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Disappointment is a blessing. If you were never disappointed, you'd never know what was important to you.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Love is a snowflake for no two are ever the same.

~ Kamand Kojouri

I'll forget me.You forget you.We can be onetogether, happily.

~ Kamand Kojouri

The reason as to why a human cannot give birth to himself is because he needs someone to help him. We are altricial, or helpless at birth, because we have to depend on others so that later in life when we are capable, we help those in need. And this is very much part of the circle of life.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Tell me where the swans go in the winterI need to know if the mute ones can sing.Tell me why stars fall from the skyI need to know if it is luck they bring.Tell me why feathers land near youI need to know if you've injured your wing.Now, tell me where you end, my angelFor I no longer know where I begin.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Love can bless you with a sense of purpose and direction when all else fails. Because to have faith in love is to be optimistic about life. Love is hopefulness.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Your eyes are like heavy rain falling from pregnant clouds. With one glance, you washed awaythe poems I chalked on the groundand drowned all my beliefs.Now, I only scribble your name and believe in your truth. I know nothing but you.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Love is the most integral function of our lives. That is why LOVE is only one letter away from LIVE.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Don’t you ever dare judge, for who among us can say that when the devil himself offered us a deal, we refused?

~ Kamand Kojouri

Retrospect: the sweetener of life.

~ Kamand Kojouri

To love is to finally live.

~ Kamand Kojouri

When I'm with you,I feel exposed.Naked. When I'm naked with you, I feel clothed.Sheltered.

~ Kamand Kojouri

You know how sometimes you meet someone and you feel like you've known them your whole life?Well, I feel like I've loved you my whole life.

~ Kamand Kojouri

It is your ego that needs to explain itself. The self just is.

~ Kamand Kojouri

We all live but a hundred years. When I am with you, I live it in a matter of days.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Seduce yourself first.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Do the lovers know that when they whisper these poems they are commemorating our love?Do they ever think of you and meor only of themselves?Do they know that I once found a strand of your hairand wore it around my necklike a necklace?That I kiss your handsmore than I kiss your lips?Do they realise that our love and their love are drops in the universe’s ocean of loveand that without any of these drops, the ocean would be less?

~ Kamand Kojouri

We dance to seduce ourselves. To fall in love with ourselves. When we dance with another, we manifest the very thing we love about ourselves so that they may see it and love us too.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Can we share my eyes so you can see what I see?Can we share my ears so you can hear what I hear?Can you perch on my shouldersso you can go where I go?Always in my heart, I don’t experience anything separate from you.This shared wonderment becomes doubled.This shared love becomes infinite.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Clocks were invented to warn us. Tick (time is passing). Tock (time has passed).

~ Kamand Kojouri

Don’t worry if you don’t accomplish everything in this life. Fortunately, death overcomes every thing—even the very thing that tried to kill us.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Maybe when we face a tragedy, someone, somewhere is preventing a bigger tragedy from happening.

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Come back to me.Where have you gone?And why so long?I miss the star below your lip,the constellation on your chest.I miss your ways,how you net butter-flying words and release themfor others to enjoy.I miss your tenderness,the sweetness of your breathand the song of your voice.I miss howyou worship me.Come back to me once more.Why did you go?And whatever for?The heavens plotted against us.The clouds came andpissed on our lives.The smell of charged particlesstill lingers in the air.What will become of you and I?Come back to us.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Knowing you, I understood myself.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Come to me.Why must you ruin this moment?You are burdened with thought.Burdened with the pastand expectations of the future.You are burdened with your self.Cast these aside by laughing at yourself.And love,for what more is there than to love me?Take me nowand let it be heaven for us.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Sadness is an invitation to God.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Stop looking forward to things, look inward instead.

~ Kamand Kojouri

People don’t remember lessons. They remember stories.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Lovers dream of one more embrace.One more kiss.One act of love, no matter how small.For in loving, lover and belovedemptied themselves.Now, they look for their oasislike men engulfed in flames.Even filled to the brim, they will never satiate. For they continue to leak, thesecracked vessels.How else did love seep through?

~ Kamand Kojouri

I left the bankbecause they wouldn’t deposit my cheque of poems.So I went to the store,but they didn’t acceptmy currency of words.So I boxed all my storiesand took them to charity.But they refused my donation and asked me to give blood instead.I opened the notebooks and made them look, 'What do you think I wrote these in?

~ Kamand Kojouri

All kinds of people read poetry: revolutionaries, scholars, sentimentalists etc. But above all else, lovers read poetry. Why? Because we fell in love. And then we fell in love with love.

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Truth is unoriginal.

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Ask of your eyes to seeonly to seek love.Ask of your mouth to speakonly to utter words of love.Ask of your hands to feelif only to touch the lover.

~ Kamand Kojouri

A man's shortcoming lies in the belief that he must always assert his manliness. A woman's shortcoming lies in the belief that she must always repress it.

~ Kamand Kojouri