Kamand Kojouri

"We call a story about love a love story. We call a poem about love a love poem. Well then, my dear, aren’t our lives love lives?"

"Usually, when I dream of flying I am simply flapping my arms and somehow I lift off and glide through the sky. Last night was different. I missed you so much and my yearning was so powerful that I sprouted wings like a phoenix and soared to reach you. And now I finally understand: if you see lovers on a roof, do not worry. Surely, love has metamorphosed them."

"Is it odd, my love, that I envy others who have not met you for the intoxication they have yet to experience? Is it odd that I wish to witness you with new eyes so I may have the pleasure of falling for you all over again? I am grateful, so grateful, for knowing the meaning of your various sighs. For being the cause of your ecstatic cries. But, if only for a moment, I wish to let you fall out of my hands so that I may catch you again. You, my love, are the oddity. You are my exception."

"I will drive the world crazywith love poems for you. So they can know how magnificent you areand how crazy I am."

"Babies cry at birth because it is the first time they experience separation from love."

"They can award me with the greatest accolades and reward me with the finest diamonds. They can name days and streets after me, canonise and celebrate me. They can make me the queen of their kingdom, the president of their nation. They can carry my picture in their wallets and whisper my name in their prayers but, tell me, what is all this worth if your voice isn’t the one calling me home?"

"Nothing belongs to itself anymore. These trees are yours because you once looked at them. These streets are yours because you once traversed them. These coffee shops and bookshops, these cafés and bars, their sole owner is you. They gave themselves so willingly, surrendering to your perfume. You sang with the birds and they stopped to listen to you. You smiled at the sheepish stars and they fell into your hair. The sun and moon, the sea and mountain, they have all left from heartbreak. Nothing belongs to itself anymore. You once spoke to Him, and then God became yours. He sits with us in darkness now to plot how to make you ours.” K. K."

"If I can’t be your love, then let me be a simple brooch so I may rest a while against your chest. If I can’t be your love, then let me be a forgotten coin so I may rest a while against your thigh. If I can’t be your love, then let me be an unlit cigarette so I may rest a while in between your lips. If I can’t be your love, then let me at least remain in these words so I may rest a while in your thoughts."

"You’ll only know the answers once you love."

"I will speak of love until you go mad and join me in my mad worship of love."

"Everywhere I go, your beauty spills into my day. The trees were never this verdant. The birdsong never this sweet."

"I don’t mind losing in this game of love, if it means You will be the winner."

"The greatest moments in our lives occur when we surrender: birth, love, and death."

"Find me. Seduce me. I want to be in love with you."

"May we always see life through love-coloured glasses."

"Polish the mirror of your heart until it reflects every person's light."

"I was so blessed. The first person I gave my heart to was an angel who plucked the feathers off his wings and built a nest for it."

"The more we surrender to what cannot be, the better we control what can be."

"The only thing that prevents us from being happy is thinking."

"The reason for the past is only revealed in the future."