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Poetry Quotes by Kamand Kojouri

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Kamand Kojouri describes how he drowns himself in poetry at night while others sleep, and how love feels like the spark that makes the verses glow. He says that placing his pen on paper lets love write for him, and that a poem can make the beloved eternal.

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“I am certain, my love, that poetry was born only after your birth.”

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“Writing poems is simply an excuse to remember You.”

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“When you left, poetry visited me.”

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“Whenever you keep score in love, you lose.”

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“I fell in love and then I became love.”

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“Sit here, so I may write you into a poem and make you eternal.”

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“Poetry isn’t an island, it is the bridge. Poetry isn’t a ship, it is the lifeboat. Poetry isn’t swimming. Poetry is water.”

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“All I need to do is place my pen against paper and your love writes for me.”

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“Take me when I'm wild. Take me when I'm free. Take me for me and I will take you as you want…

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“I couldn’t have dreamed you into existence because I didn’t even know I needed you. You must have been sent to me.”

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“What is the point of all these books when I learn best by reading your body?”

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“Every book has to wait for the right time to be read and understood.”

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“You are not who you think. You're not even the thinker. You are the one conscious of the thought.”

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“At a night like this, where it's just me and the yellow moon, I feel complete.”

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“Poetry is jealous of you tonight, for as soon as I come to pen a few words, your perfume attacks me in…

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“Like a child who saves their favourite food on the plate for last, I try to save all thoughts of you for…

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“I can sense your love, why leave me in darkness? Beguile me for your amusement, stealing my soul without kisses. You are…

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“Fall in love with me and I will immortalise you in my poetry. Fall in love with me and I will worship…

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“Listen. Do you see that you can’t hear snowfall? Look. Do you sense that you can’t see love? Touch. Do you grasp…

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“Art doesn’t give rise to anything in us that isn’t already there. It simply stirs our curious consciousness and sparks a fire…

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“Reading poetry is like undressing before a bath. You don't undress out of fear that your clothes will become wet. You undress…

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“I left the bank because they wouldn’t deposit my cheque of poems. So I went to the store, but they didn’t accept…

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“Why didn't you write all this time? Did you not remember us in a song? A dance? In the skies littered with…

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“What is this love that makes me see beauty, and makes every beautiful thing bring you back to me? What is this…

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“For me, you are fresh water that falls from trees when it has stopped raining. For me, you are cinnamon that lingers…

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“I was mistaken when I said you live in my heart. How absurd I was when you live in my fingertips so…

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“I write our names on the page. What of it, if the paper will be burned? I write our names in the…

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“Like a pair of old slippers, I feel comfort and warmth as I slip into you. No, that is too crude. Like…

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“Does God know the number of kisses before we fall in love? Yesterday, I was nobody and I believed myself important. Today,…

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“Let my silence grow with noise as pregnant mothers grow with life. Let my silence permeate these walls as sunlight permeates a…

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“I've written you sixty-seven love poems. Here’s another one for you. But really, for me. These poems are the candles that I…

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“O, weary angels, don’t look at me with those eyes. If that is your state then what of our cries? What can…

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“A poetess is not as selfish as you assume. After months of agonising over her marriage of words—the bride— and spaces—the groom,…

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“I spent all night weaving a poem for you to wear. You look so beautiful when you wear my light.”

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“Love, they said, burns you and builds you. But with you, there’s no ash. Just light.”

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“Because at night when others are sleeping, I drown myself in poetry.”

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“I came to pen another poem for you, but even every unwritten poem is you.”

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“Let us remember to always rediscover one another because we are forever changing.”

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“I wonder if you ever read my poems and wish they were written for you.”

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“Here's another poem, like all others before and after, dedicated to you. There isn't anything left to be said but I will…

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“You have no choice. You must leave your ego on the doorstep before you enter love.”

“Because at night when others are sleeping, I drown myself in poetry.”

“Our minds have this strange ability to make associations using ourselves as a reference point. They create our identities based on our relation to…

“He knows all my thoughts. He knows all I’ve ever done and He loves me all the same. What is our purpose, you ask.…

“Whenever you are angry, take a beautiful object in your house and smash it to pieces. The pity you feel for what you have…

“If only we studied the stars as much as we study our own reflections.”

“If love weighs you down and casts a shadow on your life then it isn’t love. Love is light and makes you light.”

“Ignorance might be bliss. But self-forgetfulness is pure ecstasy.”