People don’t remember lessons. They remember stories. - Kamand Kojouri
Want to help others? Be yourself. You’ll inspire others to muster the courage to be themselves as well. - 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
They want to knowwho I write these poems for.Tell them it's for all loversbecause I don’t see a differencebetween our loveand their love. - Kamand Kojouri
We all live but a hundred years. When I am with you, I live it in a matter of days. - Kamand Kojouri
Sadness is an invitation to God. - Kamand Kojouri
An act of violence, no matter how small, can never be justified if it can be avoided. - Kamand Kojouri
Two things are needed to raise awareness: education and love. And these go hand in hand because we can be taught to love. - Kamand Kojouri
Love is the most integral function of our lives. That is why LOVE is only one letter away from LIVE. - Kamand Kojouri
Retrospect: the sweetener of life. - Kamand Kojouri
What can I tell you about the alchemy of twins?Twins are two bodies that dance to each other’s joy.Two minds that drownin each other’s despair.Two spirits that flywith each other’s love.Twins are two separate beingsconjoined at the heart! - Kamand Kojouri
The best tourist is one without a camera - Kamand Kojouri
This body is the house of God. - 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
And then one day you realise that if you want to be rich, you'd have to give away almost everything you own. - Kamand Kojouri
You want to become a better person?Just give thanks. Give thanks for all of it. - 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
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
My dear, please be careful.You no longer live only for yourself.You live for me as well. - Kamand Kojouri
Autumn is my favourite season of all. It is a transitory period that allows the earth to rest before it sees the harshness of winter and hears the promise of spring. - Kamand Kojouri
Before you, nothing.Now you, and everything - 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. - Kamand Kojouri
Know this: whenever you think of leaving, a part of you has already left. But it’s never too late to get it back. - 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.Uglyis 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 simplythe manifestation oflove. - Kamand Kojouri
Love is a snowflake for no two are ever the same. - Kamand Kojouri
Two great things happened to me. One was that I survived. The other was that I met you, because I knew why - Kamand Kojouri
Gone are the summer daysand my mind along with them.No longer will I indulgein hopes of getting you back.It is hope that makes these chains heavierand autumnal nights longer.I will merely serve as a memory to you:the lover that recited love poems.I must go nowand I urge you not to look back. - Kamand Kojouri
Come, let us speak with our bodies.Teach me how to please you.I am here to learn.Let us not waste this time.It is the hour of union.ComeAnd after you do,Come again. - Kamand Kojouri
If all we had were roses, would the thorns then be beautiful? - Kamand Kojouri
Tu amor abrió un mundo entero que ninguna cantidad de libros o sabiduría jamás podría abrir. - Kamand Kojouri
You do not have to be beautiful.You do not even have to be intelligent.All you have to do is practice kindness,for that is our purpose. - Kamand Kojouri
Always ask yourself: "What will happen if I say nothing? - Kamand Kojouri
Let us go where skins are rainbowsEnhanced by every hue.Where genders are cloudsWeightless and formless through.Let us go where creeds are starsIlluminating our view.Where men and women are oneAnd the in-between are true.Let us go where I am free to loveFor I cannot unlove you. - Kamand Kojouri
I couldn’t have dreamed you into existence because I didn’t even know I needed you. You must have been sent to me. - Kamand Kojouri
Love without conditions, restrictions, or the expectation of being loved in return. - Kamand Kojouri
Come, lovers.Come join us.Bring your empty cupsand sit by the fire.Let Khayyam and Hafezreveal to you what you feel.Rumi will pour the wine and I will listen. - Kamand Kojouri
I cannot imagine how much I must’ve suffered in my previous lives to be fortunate enough to have parents like you in this life. - Kamand Kojouri
The greatest thing about me isn’t even a part of me. It’s you. - Kamand Kojouri
I began to write because of love. I wrote to understand what I felt and what I knew. - Kamand Kojouri
How is it that there was never youuntil there wasand then all was you? - Kamand Kojouri
Seduce yourself first. - Kamand Kojouri
If you write then you are reborn because by writing about the moment, you can relive it for a second time. - 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
To live with you is to live.To live without you is to die. - Kamand Kojouri
She placed her hand on her chest and thought, 'So this is what the poets write about'. - Kamand Kojouri
Love is our most basic human value and also our highest potential. - Kamand Kojouri
Whenever you keep score in love, you lose. - Kamand Kojouri
Sometimes a writer simply finds new ways of saying what has already been said because, ultimately, truth is unoriginal. - Kamand Kojouri
I became an artist because I wanted to be an active participant in the conversation about art. - Kamand Kojouri
When I'm with you,I feel exposed.Naked. When I'm naked with you, I feel clothed.Sheltered. - Kamand Kojouri
Forgiveness is a transformative act because it asks you to be a more empathetic and compassionate person, thereby making you better than the person you were when you were first hurt. - Kamand Kojouri
Your love opened up a whole world that no amount of books or wisdom could ever do. - Kamand Kojouri
Mist to mist, drops to drops. For water thou art, and unto water shalt thou return. - Kamand Kojouri
What is the point of a relationship if not to grant two people the very private privilege to uplift one another every day? - 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 becausemy plans were very differentthan His plans for me. - Kamand Kojouri
Prejudice is an act of violence. - Kamand Kojouri
Maybe when we face a tragedy, someone, somewhere is preventing a bigger tragedy from happening. - Kamand Kojouri
Because at nightwhen others are sleeping, I drown myself in poetry. - Kamand Kojouri
They tell us the greatest love story is how water fell in love with fire. Or how satan fell in love with God. But the greatest love story to me is how I didn’t notice myself falling, when I fell in love with you - Kamand Kojouri
This is the only truth in the world that was necessary yesterday, is necessary today, and will continue to be necessary tomorrow: be conscious of now. - Kamand Kojouri
All you need to get by in this world is the memory of love - Kamand Kojouri
Come into my world. I will show you the phenomenon that Stendhal experienced. I will help you feel the cascading arpeggios of Wagner's overture. I will dance to Doga’s waltzes with you. A day spent without appreciating the beauty surrounding us is a waste. Let me appreciate you - Kamand Kojouri
These poems are cupsthat I pour my life into.Here, Drink! - Kamand Kojouri
Cuanto más nos rindamos a lo que no puede ser, mejor podremos controlar lo que puede ser. - Kamand Kojouri
A negative outlook is dangerous. When you say, It can’t get any worse! You're essentially challenging the universe to do exactly that. - Kamand Kojouri
God’s existence is reaffirmed once we fall in with another. - Kamand Kojouri
Wonderment shared is doubled.Love shared is infinite. - Kamand Kojouri
Remember:all the thoughts you have of yourself and others are written on your face. Make them kind. - Kamand Kojouri
String theory makes sense to me because the universe is a symphony that creates harmony with the vibration of our strings. - Kamand Kojouri
Why this candle?Why this cake?The day of my birth is not today.I was born when you said, 'Hey. - Kamand Kojouri
To live, to truly live, one must consider each and every thing a blessing. - Kamand Kojouri
Speak to me: I will spend my lifetime trying to understand you. - Kamand Kojouri
When, at last, I ceased to be myself, I came to be. - Kamand Kojouri
If you can love one person, you can love everyone. - Kamand Kojouri
Clocks were invented to warn us. Tick (time is passing). Tock (time has passed). - Kamand Kojouri
To see her is to be seduced by her. - Kamand Kojouri
Your attention is so sacred that if you truly look for beauty and grace, you will find it in everything. - Kamand Kojouri
Enjoy this moment. The ultimate fulfilment of the dream will not come close to the dream. Enjoy it - Kamand Kojouri
You are not who you think.You're not even the thinker.You are the one conscious of the thought. - Kamand Kojouri
My mind is being consumed by you.My body is longing for you. Just one touch or a kiss, And I shall be satiated for a thousand years. - 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
The best traveler is one without a camera. - Kamand Kojouri
Don’t make the mistake of looking down on your partner. You’re only on that pedestal because they put you up there. - Kamand Kojouri
The more we surrender to what cannot be, the better we control what can be. - Kamand Kojouri
I write to understand what I know. - Kamand Kojouri
Classical music is the best, and cheapest, mind-altering drug in the world. - Kamand Kojouri
Let borders become sunlight so we traverse this Earth as one nation and drive the darkness out. - Kamand Kojouri
I can sense your love,why leave me in darkness?Beguile me for your amusement,stealing my soul without kisses. You are the sun and I, the moon. Your beauty is reflected in my eyes.When we are apart, I am extinguishedin the blackness of these skies. - Kamand Kojouri
¿Cuál es el punto de una relación si no conceder dos personas el privilegio muy privado para elevar unos a otros todos los días? - Kamand Kojouri
Kiss your scars. Fall in love with them. They ought to serve as life-affirming reminders—a lingering trace of hope. The only reason we have these scars is because we survived and are still here. - Kamand Kojouri
The only thing necessary in this world is love. Everything else is secondary. - Kamand Kojouri
Break open your heart so that I may enter it. - Kamand Kojouri
We live only for the hope of love. - Kamand Kojouri
Love is the only reason that is reason enough - Kamand Kojouri
The reason as to why we are attracted to our opposites is because they are our salvation from the burden of being ourselves. - Kamand Kojouri
La iluminación carece de cualquier forma de juicio. - Kamand Kojouri
I think falling in love is like discovering the magic of books. You think to yourself, 'how was I living before this? - Kamand Kojouri
I'm not here to grant you the extraordinary love you never had for yourself. I'm here, on my own accord, to love you. So that when you stare into my mirror eyes, you may see how extraordinary you are. - Kamand Kojouri
Moments of suffering are meant to empty us so that we may have the potential to tap into our truest depths. - Kamand Kojouri
I am looking for the one I can’t fool. - Kamand Kojouri
The only thing that prevents us from being happy is thinking. - Kamand Kojouri
The reason for the past is only revealed in the future. - Kamand Kojouri
Don't let a cruel word escape your mouth. There's no greater sin than breaking a heart. - 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
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
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
Life is short; love is longer. - Kamand Kojouri
The only path wide for us all is love. - Kamand Kojouri
Beauty is the manifestation of love. - Kamand Kojouri
They took my booksbecause my message was love.They took my penbecause my words were love.Then they took my voicebecause my song was love.Soon they’ll take myselfso nothing remains.But they don’t know that when I'm gonemy love will stay. - Kamand Kojouri
I think whenever there’s potential for beauty, beauty can be found. And everything has potential for beauty. - Kamand Kojouri
Love fills the infinite. - Kamand Kojouri
The hardest thing in the world is to let go of who you once thought you were and to manifest your true self, at the risk of being unloved. This is self-actualization. - Kamand Kojouri
If your mind can move mountainsand swallow gods,Why does it worry with helpless yesterdays and unborn tomorrows?If it can vomit starsand walk on split hairs,Why must it follow the samepath to despair?Everyone will tell you:'An orgasm here is just as good. - 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
In the very end, all we have left to atone for our faults are words. - Kamand Kojouri
Maybe stories choose how they are told and who tells them. - Kamand Kojouri
Knowing you, I understood myself. - Kamand Kojouri
I began missing you even before we met. - Kamand Kojouri
We are all born as storytellers. Our inner voice tells the first story we ever hear. - Kamand Kojouri
When you are here, God is near. - Kamand Kojouri
Your love brought me closer to God. - Kamand Kojouri
I'll forget me.You forget you.We can be onetogether, happily. - 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
For how can any human be separate from humanity and humanness? - Kamand Kojouri
Remember to forget yourself - Kamand Kojouri
Disappointment is a blessing. If you were never disappointed, you'd never know what was important to you. - Kamand Kojouri
The only path wide enough for us all is love. - Kamand Kojouri
Enlightenment lacks any form of judgment. - Kamand Kojouri
Oh, how scary and wonderful it is that words can change our lives simply by being next to each other. - 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
When you get shy, you’re simply thinking of yourself. Stop it. Step out of yourself. - Kamand Kojouri
Think the tree that bears nutrition:though the fruits are picked, the plant maintains fruition.So give all the love you have.Do not hold any in reserve.What is given is not lost; it shall return. - Kamand Kojouri
Maybe love at first sight isn’t what we think it is. Maybe it’s recognising a soul we loved in a past life and falling in love with them again. - Kamand Kojouri
And there's you. You're just beautiful. Effortlessly beautiful, like nature. You have the trinity of beauty: a beautiful heart, a beautiful mind, and a beautiful soul. - Kamand Kojouri
Autumn is hereand I am in love.My heart has taken residence in my mind.I pick the crisp ochre leaves and put them in my pocket.I am in love. - Kamand Kojouri
What you choose also chooses you. - Kamand Kojouri
Why wait to forgive and let go only after you have sufficiently wallowed in your despair? Why not forgive and let go now? - Kamand Kojouri
She was in awe of all his work. 'How do you do it?" she asked.He smiled and said, 'By loving you. - Kamand Kojouri
Our homes travel with us. They are wherever we feel loved and accepted. - Kamand Kojouri
Name and form are simply illusions of separation. Love doesn’t make us blind; rather, it erases the illusions so we can see clearly. - Kamand Kojouri
Truth is unoriginal. - Kamand Kojouri
A soulmate is a direct pathway to God. - Kamand Kojouri
Yes, silence is painful, but if you endure it, you will hear the cadence of the entire universe. - Kamand Kojouri
To begin to know ourselves we must have sincere conversations with ourselves as if with a good friend. We must answer without reserve, listen without judgement, and accept without condition. That is self-love. - Kamand Kojouri
Where were you when I undressed and told the tales of my day?Where were youwhenI was silent with God in prandial pray?Where were youwhen I recited love poems as I lay?Where were you? - Kamand Kojouri
You have made me a love poet. - Kamand Kojouri
I wish for all of us the blindness of love that makes us see no faults in the other. - Kamand Kojouri
Think not of the fragility of life, but of the power of books, when mere words have the ability to change our lives simply by being next to each other. - Kamand Kojouri
To understand and be understood is to be at peace - 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
Stop looking forward to things, look inward instead. - 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
With you, I am. Without you, I am not. - Kamand Kojouri
It is your ego that needs to explain itself. The self just is. - Kamand Kojouri
To love is to finally live. - Kamand Kojouri
Worry notif you are in darknessand the void sucks you in further.This is not the place we go to die.It’s where we are bornand our stories begin. - Kamand Kojouri
Reading poetry is like undressing before a bath. You don't undress out of fear that your clothes will become wet. You undress because you want the water to touch you. You want to completely immerse yourself in the feeling of the water and to emerge anew. - Kamand Kojouri
As long as you're not hurting anyone or anything, including your future self, do only that which makes you happy. - Kamand Kojouri
I wonderif you ever read my poemsand wish they were writtenfor you. - Kamand Kojouri
Sit here, so I may writeyou into a poem and make you eternal. - Kamand Kojouri
Why is your skin the best feeling in the world? - Kamand Kojouri
You think I'm giving up. I'm not. I'm giving in. - Kamand Kojouri
You just wait.Soon, lovers all over the worldwill be reciting poems dedicated to you.This is my promise. - Kamand Kojouri
The thing about love is that you will never run out of it. It's an ever-flowing river. So go ahead and LOVE. What are you saving all this love for — death? - Kamand Kojouri
We reveal most about ourselves when we speak about others. - Kamand Kojouri
If they spit on you,collect their spittle to water your plants.If they throw stones at you,pick them up to adorn your garden.If they call you the enemy, a liar and a narcissist. Plant those very flowers: anemone, lily, and narcissus. Use their crap to fertilise your mind. - 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
Each of us is like all of us and like no one else. - 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
Take me when I'm wild.Take me when I'm free.Take me for meand I will take you as you want to be. - Kamand Kojouri
I don’t want to be remembered for my work. I want to be remembered for my love. - Kamand Kojouri
It’s so easy to lose faith and become lost in all of the politics of the world. That’s why we need the arts. To sublimate our frustration and anger into something beautiful. Freud called sublimation a virtuous defence mechanism because it is in the arts that we can find our humanity. - Kamand Kojouri
Think not of the fragility of life, but of the power of books, when mere words can change our lives simply by being next to each other. - Kamand Kojouri
The closest thing to perfection is imperfection - Kamand Kojouri
A purposeful life is the most important thing in the world. And love is the most important purpose of all. - Kamand Kojouri
Love is our religion. Love is our light. It is the only thing that gives us any hope. - Kamand Kojouri
Listen.Do you see that you can’t hear snowfall?Look.Do you sensethat you can’t see love?Touch.Do you graspthat you can’t catch poems?Try.Smell this glass. Go on taste this cloud.These material senses won’t get you far untilyou feelthe velvet glove caress your soul. - Kamand Kojouri
Kamand, die every dayso you rememberto live. - Kamand Kojouri
May we always be burdened with thinking of the suffering of others, for that is what it means to be human. - 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
Fell in love first,Fell in love quickly—Like I was pushed.Fell in love next,Fell in love slowly—Like I was strolling.Falling in love now And feeling crazy.Thinking of closing my eyesAnd jumping. - Kamand Kojouri
Why are we afraid of the silence that ensues after our death? Wasn’t it the same silence we endured before birth? Isn’t it the same silence we revel in when we are completely immersed in the present moment? Let us not be afraid. - Kamand Kojouri
We all have the ability to make someone's life better with our love. - Kamand Kojouri
She might not have read many books. But when she reads a book, she swallows the very words. If you open the books on her shelves, you will find that the front and back covers encase white pages. - 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