Essentials Quote by Kiki Dimoula

“Life's essential length is only a few pages long, as succinct as a line of verse and as brief as the title of a poem.” quote by Kiki Dimoula — Download Open image

“Life's essential length is only a few pages long, as succinct as a line of verse and as brief as the title of a poem.”

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I write very rarely. Only, in fact, when the sheet of paper suffers an existential crisis and threatens, if I don't surrender to it,…

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Poetry contains love and holds it in high esteem, even though love always humiliates it by using it merely as a soothing after-shave lotion.

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Poetry relishes ripe fruit - but ripe is one thing and overripe quite another. That's something poetry doesn't like, so it couldn't care less…

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I don't aspire, but I would be very happy if one of my poems suddenly offered someone a shady rest stop, a breather in…

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What I try to do is to keep emotion on a tight leash; otherwise, it can never be transubstantiated into poetry.

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You are walking in a desert.You hear a bird singing.As absurd as it may seem for a bird to be pending in the desert,you…

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All that we are and all that we've ever felt, words have felt it first.

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If anything needs love it is reality, for it is reality that lacks it the most - I doubt that it was ever loved.

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Love grows by not giving to us. And if our passion for poetry lives on and persists, it is because poetry offers us only…

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I've grown extremely tired of the face of the world.

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The rights essential to happiness. . . . We claim them from a higher source - from the King of kings and Lord of all the earth.

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