“What I like most about us is the innocence. You bring the child out of me. And this is really the greatest gift of all: to have someone encourage and take delight in your childish manifestations. The day you lose this quality, this vast curiosity, will and hunger to explore all that is around you is the day you stop living.”
Kamand Kojouri
“Knowing you, I understood myself.”
Kamand Kojouri
“A purposeful life is the most important thing in the world. And love is the most important purpose of all.”
Kamand Kojouri
“Know this: whenever you think of leaving, a part of you has already left. But it’s never too late to get it back.”
Kamand Kojouri
“Missing you,
I missed a part of me
I shared with you
that’s now gone.Missing you,
when really,
it was the way you made me feel
and the things you made us do.Missing you
I shouldn’t be.
But I can’t help missing
who I was with you.Missing you,
I missed
and missed so much of the world
and wasn’t even missed in return.”Kamand Kojouri
“Even when I write about this swan
and that orchid,
I write about you.
Every word
of every line
is for you.
I have drunk you
yet you have consumed me.
Seeping through every cell
from crown to root,
you took over heart,
mind,
and lungs
so that every breath I expel
leaves a trail of you in the air—
the same air that I inhale.
I no longer know myself separate from you.
But how I long to be with the source!”Kamand Kojouri
“They took my books
because my message was love.
Then they took my pen
because my words were love.
They took my voice
because my speech was love.
And soon, they’ll take me too
so nothing remains.
But they don’t know when I’m gone
my love will stay.”Kamand Kojouri
“What is this love
that makes me see beauty,
and makes every beautiful thing
bring you back to me?
What is this love
that makes me declare ‘I love you’
even though I uttered it
only a moment ago?
What is this love
that keeps growing even when my chest is sore
and it hurts to love you any more?
Tell me:
How am I to find what this love is
when it was the one to find you, me,
this verse, and this universe?”Kamand Kojouri
“If they spit on you,
collect their spittle to water your plants.If they throw stones at you,
pick them up to adorn your garden.If they call you the enemy, a liar and a narcissist.
Plant those very flowers: anemone, lily, and narcissus.Use their crap to cultivate your mind.”
Kamand Kojouri
“I write our names on the page.
What of it, if the paper will be burned?
I write our names in the sand.
What of it, if the shore will be washed by waves?
I write our names on trees that will be cut
and benches that will be painted,
but what of it?
I will keep on writing our names
because in this world of ephemera,
you and I are the only constant.”Kamand Kojouri
Kamand Kojouri 