Kojouri Quotes

“Missing you,
I missed a part of me
I shared with you
that’s now gone.

Missing you,
when really,
it was the way you made me feel
and the things you made us do.

Missing you
I shouldn’t be.
But I can’t help missing
who I was with you.

Missing you,
I missed
and missed so much of the world
and wasn’t even missed in return.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“I began missing you even before we met.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“I haven’t written you a poem in years it seems.
How can it be my fault
when the words to describe you have not yet been created?
When the alphabet lacks the very letters?
How can it be my fault
when your loveliness only grows
by the time I reach for pen and paper?
Tell me how I am at fault
when I am only a beginner in poems
and you are exquisite poetry?
To write you in words
is to put a veil upon you.
Why must I write
when I can kiss you instead?”
― Kamand Kojouri

“Our homes travel with us. They are wherever we feel loved and accepted.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“Knowing you, I understood myself.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“Beauty is
dad kissing mom's hand when it cramps.
Beauty is
seeing a Persian woman dance.
Ugly is not the absence of beauty.
Ugly
is the inability to identify it.
The inability
to be surprised by it.
It is the persistent reluctance
to be made a child by it.
Beauty is
simply
the manifestation of
love.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“Worry not
if you are in darkness
and the void sucks you in further.
This is not the place we go to die.
It’s where we are born
and our stories begin.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“All you need to get by in this world is the memory of love”
― Kamand Kojouri

“Last night, I spoke to God.
I told Him my plans. He started to cry.
I thought I was great to move The Greatest to tears.
He said that He was crying only because
my plans were very different
than His plans for me.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“Do you know what you get when you try to escape? When you drive for miles in a deserted city or swim for hours in a shoreless sea? You get yourself.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“Poetry is seeing everything when there is only one thing. It is looking at a rose but seeing the stars, moons, seas, and trees. It is a truth beyond logic, an experience beyond thought. Poetry is the Earth pausing on its axis in order to manifest itself as a rose.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“Because in truth, my love, if you have thought of me once then I have thought of you a thousand times.
You have captured my heart. It is yours.
I am at your mercy now”
― Kamand Kojouri

“My hours are filled with fantasy and indifference.
In day and night dreams, I think of my heaven with you.
All the time in between, I carelessly spend in hell without you.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“Ask of your eyes to see
only to seek love.
Ask of your mouth to speak
only to utter words of love.
Ask of your hands to feel
if only to touch the lover.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“To understand and be understood is to be at peace”
― Kamand Kojouri

“Stop looking forward to things, look inward instead.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“The more we surrender to what cannot be, the better we control what can be.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“Classical music is the best, and cheapest, mind-altering drug in the world.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“Extremities are flawed.
Moderation is ideal, save for one occasion.
So damn these eyes that weep too much.
This mind that thinks too much.
But never this heart that loves too much.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“Sadness is an invitation to God.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“People don’t remember lessons. They remember stories.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“I have no use for these other loves.
Seal them shut in jars
and place them in the pantry.
A reserve of love.

Thank them for their love.
They are so kind.
Perhaps store them in the fridge
For others to take.

They say love is a panacea.
I know it is not.
Flakes of snow,
no two are alike.

When I am down on my knees,
hopeless and angry,
for the world no longer makes sense,
I won't look in the pantry or fridge.

It is your hand pressing on my shoulder
that makes me whole,
makes me forget.
What trouble? What world?”
― Kamand Kojouri

“Before you, nothing.
Now you,
and everything”
― Kamand Kojouri

“The only thing necessary in this world is love. Everything else is secondary.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“Wonderment shared is doubled.
Love shared is infinite.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“Love fills the infinite.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“The reason for the past is only revealed in the future.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“You think I'm giving up. I'm not. I'm giving in.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“Truth is unoriginal.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“For how can any human be separate from humanity and humanness?”
― Kamand Kojouri