Put down your glass,
it is time to dance.
If you want to get drunk
all you need is to drink love.
Put down your pipe
and do away with these childish toys.
If you want to get high
all you need is to breathe love.
Now,
can I have this dance?


Kamand Kojouri

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who we are
where we come from
a...
KAMAND KOJOURI
Be like the sun who fell in love with the moon and shared all his light.
KAMAND KOJOURI
Missing you,
I missed a part of me
I shared with you
that’s now gone.

M...
KAMAND KOJOURI
Disappointment is a blessing. If you were never disappointed, you'd never know what was important to...
KAMAND KOJOURI
Do not go to my grave.
Mary knows, I am not there.
Look for me in between pages
an...
KAMAND KOJOURI
I am going to build a fortress of books.
Will you come inside and live with me?
KAMAND KOJOURI
Listen.
Do you see
that you can’t hear snowfall?
Look.
Do you sense
that...
KAMAND KOJOURI
I cannot imagine how much I must’ve suffered in my previous lives to be fortunate enough to have p...
KAMAND KOJOURI
It’s so easy to lose faith and become lost in all of the politics of the world. That’s why we ne...
KAMAND KOJOURI
Why wait to forgive and let go only after you have sufficiently wallowed in your despair? Why not fo...
KAMAND KOJOURI
Your eyes are like heavy rain
falling from pregnant clouds.
With one glance, you washed ...
KAMAND KOJOURI
I see them
and they see me
but the lovers —
we recognise one another:
ther...
KAMAND KOJOURI
We are told that in translation there is no such thing as equivalence. Many times the translator rea...
KAMAND KOJOURI
What you choose also chooses you.
KAMAND KOJOURI
Mist to mist, drops to drops. For water thou art, and unto water shalt thou return.
KAMAND KOJOURI
The thing about love is that you will never run out of it. It's an ever-flowing river. So go ahead a...
KAMAND KOJOURI
The only thing necessary in this world is love. Everything else is secondary.
KAMAND KOJOURI
Two things are needed to raise awareness: education and love. And these go hand in hand because we c...
KAMAND KOJOURI
We reveal most about ourselves when we speak about others.
KAMAND KOJOURI
Ignorance might be bliss. But self-forgetfulness is pure ecstasy.
KAMAND KOJOURI
Die every night so in the morning you are reborn.
KAMAND KOJOURI
Reading poetry is like undressing before a bath. You don't undress out of fear that your clothes wil...
KAMAND KOJOURI
To live with you is to live.
To live without you is to die.
KAMAND KOJOURI
Can we share my eyes
so you can see what I see?
Can we share my ears
so you can hea...
KAMAND KOJOURI
I couldn’t have dreamed you into existence because I didn’t even know I needed you. You must hav...
KAMAND KOJOURI
I'm not here to grant you the extraordinary love you never had for yourself. I'm here, on my own acc...
KAMAND KOJOURI
Does God know
the number of kisses
before we fall in love?
Yesterday, I was nobody KAMAND KOJOURI
The only path wide for us all is love.
KAMAND KOJOURI
I've written you sixty-seven love poems.
Here’s another one for you.
But really, for me....
KAMAND KOJOURI
What is this love
that makes me see beauty,
and makes every beautiful thing
bring yo...
KAMAND KOJOURI
Take me when I'm wild.
Take me when I'm free.
Take me for me
and I will take you
KAMAND KOJOURI
The greatest thing about me isn’t even a part of me. It’s you.
KAMAND KOJOURI
Why didn't you write all this time?
Did you not remember us in a song?
A dance?
In th...
KAMAND KOJOURI
With you, I am. Without you, I am not.
KAMAND KOJOURI
I love you so much
I want to share you
with yourself.
I know you do not insist
KAMAND KOJOURI
Your omnipresence is marvellous!
I breathe and you enter me.
I exhale and enter into you.
KAMAND KOJOURI
You just wait.
Soon,
lovers all over the world
will be reciting poems
dedicate...
KAMAND KOJOURI
You are my favourite part of life.
KAMAND KOJOURI
How is it possible, you ask, for love to be greater than the person who does the loving? That’s be...
KAMAND KOJOURI
I write because the security of your love allows me to develop my craft without concerning myself wi...
KAMAND KOJOURI
Why this candle?
Why this cake?
The day of my birth
is not today.
I was born KAMAND KOJOURI
We start a relationship with someone not only because of how great they are but how great they make ...
KAMAND KOJOURI
Being deeply, passionately, and intensely in love is being deeply, passionately, and intensely in li...
KAMAND KOJOURI
I’m a winner because I always bet on you.
KAMAND KOJOURI
Speak to me: I will spend my lifetime trying to understand you.
KAMAND KOJOURI
How is it
that there was never you
until there was
and then all was you?
KAMAND KOJOURI
I came to
pen another poem for you,
but even every unwritten poem
is you.
KAMAND KOJOURI
If love weighs you down
and casts a shadow on your life
then it isn’t love.
Love KAMAND KOJOURI
I will drive the world crazy
with love poems for you.
So they can know how magnificent you...
KAMAND KOJOURI
I fell in love
and then
I became
love.
KAMAND KOJOURI
Love, they said, burns you
and builds you.
But with you,
there’s no ash.
Just...
KAMAND KOJOURI
All I need to do
is place my pen against paper
and your love
writes for me.
KAMAND KOJOURI
Let us remember to
always rediscover one another
because we are
forever changing.
KAMAND KOJOURI
Of course, I am religious.
I worship love.
KAMAND KOJOURI
My love,
you are driving the entire world mad.
The nightingales are committing suicide <...
KAMAND KOJOURI
I remember our childhood days
when life was easy
and math problems hard.
Mom would he...
KAMAND KOJOURI
I don’t mind losing
in this game of love,
if it means You
will be the winner.
KAMAND KOJOURI
Everywhere I go,
your beauty spills
into my day.
The trees were
never this v...
KAMAND KOJOURI
I love you.
I love you a thousand times.
I love you an irrational number.
And I will...
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
May we always be burdened with thinking of the suffering of others, for that is what it means to be ...
KAMAND KOJOURI
Forgiveness is a transformative act because it asks you to be a more empathetic and compassionate pe...
KAMAND KOJOURI
Don't let a cruel word escape your mouth. There's no greater sin than breaking a heart.
KAMAND KOJOURI
Classical music is the best, and cheapest, mind-altering drug in the world.
KAMAND KOJOURI
Because even if you spend your life chasing the immaterial, listening to the most exquisite classica...
KAMAND KOJOURI
A spark
of every fire we seek
is already within us.
KAMAND KOJOURI
Usually, when I dream of flying
I am simply flapping my arms
and somehow I lift off and ...
KAMAND KOJOURI
My love,
we can close our eyes
but we cannot stop the sunrise.
KAMAND KOJOURI
It doesn’t matter whether you are looking for a reason to be happy or sad, you will always find it...
KAMAND KOJOURI
Extremities are flawed.
Moderation is ideal, save for one occasion.
So damn these eyes th...
KAMAND KOJOURI
I have died at the ripe age of twenty.
Smile, for the world didn't get a chance to disappoint m...
KAMAND KOJOURI
Poetry isn’t an island, it is the bridge.
Poetry isn’t a ship, it is the lifeboat.
P...
KAMAND KOJOURI