01UndatedWhat is this lovethat makes me see beauty,and makes every beautiful thing bring you back to me?What is this lovethat makes me declare 'I love you'even though I uttered itonly a moment ago?What is this love that keeps growing even when my chest is soreand it hurts to love you any more?Tell me:How am I to find what this love iswhen it was the one to find you, me, this verse, and this universe?Kamand Kojouri / quote ↗
02UndatedI 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 / quote ↗
03UndatedDoes God knowthe number of kissesbefore we fall in love?Yesterday, I was nobodyand I believed myself important.Today,I feel my worth in you.You, with your emerald eyes and ebony hair,even your heartbeat is beautiful.You, who is my greatest joy,all other concerns vanish in your presence.You swallow timeand consume space,inspiring all my passionwith a single embrace.I love your existence.Kamand Kojouri / quote ↗
04UndatedYour attention is so sacred that if you truly look for beauty and grace, you will find it in everything.Kamand Kojouri / quote ↗
05UndatedAnd 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 / quote ↗
06UndatedMake no mistake about it. We are born blind, deaf, and mute. It is neither these eyes that give us sight, nor these ears that give us sound. It is not even these lips that give us voice. It is only love. Love makes us seek beauty and truth. Love yearns to connect. To experience. To understand. So close your eyes at once. Don’t utter a word. Perk up your ears and listen to that silent sound inside you where all this is found.Kamand Kojouri / quote ↗
07UndatedCome 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 youKamand Kojouri / quote ↗
08UndatedYou 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 / quote ↗
09UndatedI think whenever there’s potential for beauty, beauty can be found. And everything has potential for beauty.Kamand Kojouri / quote ↗
10UndatedBeauty 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 / quote ↗
12UndatedI think falling in love is like discovering the magic of books. You think to yourself, 'how was I living before this?Kamand Kojouri / quote ↗
13UndatedBy loving you, I learn everything because your soul contains the entire universe.Kamand Kojouri / quote ↗
14UndatedThe first music I ever heard was only one hundred and sixty days after I was conceived. Da dum Da dum Da dum Have you ever heard the sound a blessing makes? This is it. The first thing I ever saw was only one hundred and eighty days after I was conceived. It was a bright light soft like clouds warm like candles. Have you ever seen the colour of a blessing? This is it. The first time I ever suffered was in the three thousand and sixty seconds after I was born. I listened for her heartbeat. I searched for her light. I cried for the first time until she was born. Have you ever known a blessing? A twin is it.Kamand Kojouri / quote ↗
15UndatedWhy this candle?Why this cake?The day of my birth is not today.I was born when you said, 'Hey.Kamand Kojouri / quote ↗
16UndatedEverything I have become,everything I will ever accomplishcannot compare to my mostimpressive feat:I have loved youfiercelyand assiduouslywith the very marrowinside my bones. So that when I die, they can crack them to findyou there. So that when I die, they can open me upand see your name tattooed on the wall of my heart.So that when I die, my epitaph will neither commemoratewho I wasnor what I did, but will read:“She loved.And loved. And loved.”And so, I smile now,because that is no small thing.Kamand Kojouri / quote ↗
17UndatedYou just wait.Soon, lovers all over the worldwill be reciting poems dedicated to you.This is my promise.Kamand Kojouri / quote ↗
18UndatedWork. Good, honest work, whether it’s working with your hands to create an artwork, or manual labour, brings forth a sense of divinity at play. The only prerequisite is that whatever the work is, it is done sincerely and in congruence with the soul’s true origin and intent, then, without any effort, one experiences a flow, wherein one feels a part of the plan of the entire universe.Kamand Kojouri / quote ↗
19UndatedMist to mist, drops to drops. For water thou art, and unto water shalt thou return.Kamand Kojouri / quote ↗
20UndatedMaybe 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 / quote ↗
21UndatedI open my eyes. I want to know:what is in the abyss of a kiss? Are stars born in these black caves that house bated breaths and unspoken words? Do our souls crawl on these tender cheeks to greet one another by ivory gates? What happens when we kiss?Where do you go?Don’t tell me. For I have lost my desire to know. Kiss me so that I forget myself. I close my eyes and fall in the abyss.Kamand Kojouri / quote ↗
22UndatedMy 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 / quote ↗
23UndatedListen.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 / quote ↗
24UndatedLove, the exotic bird, came and went.Heart forgot love.Joy, the majestic willow, wept and died.Mind forgot joy.Hope, the basement lamp, fell and broke.Soul forgot hope.Self, the anxious caterpillar, took flight and dropped.Self forgot self.You, my all, became all my reasons.Reasons left.You left.I never forgot.Kamand Kojouri / quote ↗
