Kamand Kojouri was born in Tehran, raised in Dubai and Toronto, and resides in England. She completed a creative writing PhD at Swansea University and currently teaches creative writing workshops.
“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
“What you choose also chooses you.”
Kamand Kojouri
“Your attention is so sacred that if you truly look for beauty and grace, you will find it in everything.”
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
“Love is a snowflake for no two are the same.”
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
“It is your ego that needs to explain itself. The self just is.”
Kamand Kojouri
“For how can any human be separate from humanity and humanness?”
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
“Sometimes a writer simply finds new ways of saying what has already been said because, ultimately, truth is unoriginal.”
Kamand Kojouri
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