Kamand Kojouri

"You think I'm giving up. I'm not. I'm giving in."

"To live in love is my life’s purpose."

"When you get shy, you’re simply thinking of yourself. Stop it. Step out of yourself."

"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."

"My love, you are driving the entire world mad. The nightingales are committing suicide one by one out of jealousy of your voice. The roses took one glance at your beauty and folded themselves from shame. The trees now only whisper your name and the sky hasn’t stopped crying since you looked up. Have pity on us, my love. We have already broken all the mirrors and glass out of fear that you will forget us and fall in love with yourself once you see what we all cannot stop seeing."

"You have already lost if you are always fearful of losing everything."

"This body is the house of God."

"This is a day of celebration!Today, we are divorcing the pastand marrying the present. Dance,and you will find Godin every room. Today, we are divorcing resentmentand marrying forgiveness. Sing,and God will find you in every tune. Today, we are divorcing indifferenceand marrying love. Drink, and play that tambourine against your thighs. We have so much celebrating to do!"

"You know how it goes:at some point in your life, you fell in love with someone and had a glimpse of God. Then you abandoned life and loverand started celebratingyour love for God."

"Of course, I am religious. I worship love."

"I see them and they see me but the lovers — we recognise one another: there is light in our eyes."

"This is an ode to life. The anthem of the world. For as there are billionsof different stars thatmake up the skyso, too, are there billions of different humans thatmake up the Earth. Some shine brighter but all are made ofthe same cosmic dust. O the joy of beingin life with all these people!I speak of differencesbecause they are there. Like the different organsthat make up our bodies. Earth, itself, is one large body. Listen to how it howlswhen one human isin misery. When one kills another, the Earth feels the pang in itschest. When one orgasms, the Earth craves a cigarette. Look carefully,these animals are beauty spots that make the Earth’s face lovelier and more loveable. These oceans are the Earth’s limpid eyes. These trees, its hair. This is an ode to life. The anthem of the world. I will no longer speak of differences, for the similaritiesare larger. Look even closer. There may bedistances between our limbs butthere are no spaces betweenour hearts. We long to be one. We long to be in nature andto run wild with its wildlife. Let us celebrate life and living, for it is sacrilegious to be ungrateful. Let us play and be playful, for it is sacrilegiousto be serious. Let us celebrate imperfectionsand make existenceproud of us, for tomorrow isdeath, and this is an ode to life. The anthem of the world."

"Forget your voice, sing!Forget your feet, dance!Forget your life, live!Forget yourself and be!"

"I long for the day when I hear the musicwithout any song."

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

"I only wrote prose before I met you. My musings were superfluous and serious as well. But now the words dance with me. I sing with them and we create poetry."

"If I had to choose between all the books in the world and you, then I would choose to read your body for the rest of my life."

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

"Poetry is jealous of you tonight, for as soon as I come to pen a few words, your perfume attacks me in the most civilised manner and I forget myself. I forget the poem. I forget the ..."

"String theory makes sense to me because the universe is a symphony that creates harmony with the vibration of our strings."