“We dance to seduce ourselves. To fall in love with ourselves. When we dance with another, we manifest the very thing we love about ourselves so that they may see it and love us too.”

Kamand Kojouri

“Why is your skin the best feeling in the world?”

Kamand Kojouri

“They tell us the greatest love story is how water fell in love with fire. Or how satan fell in love with God. But the greatest love story to me is how I didn’t notice myself falling, when I fell in love with you.”

Kamand Kojouri

“You know how sometimes you meet someone and you feel like you’ve known them your whole life?
Well, I feel like I’ve loved you my whole life.”

Kamand Kojouri

“I couldn’t have dreamed you into existence because I didn’t even know I needed you. You must have been sent to me.”

Kamand Kojouri

“She placed her hand on her chest and thought, ‘So this is what the poets write about.'”

Kamand Kojouri

“Let borders become sunlight so we traverse this Earth as one nation and drive the darkness out.”

Kamand Kojouri

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

Kamand Kojouri

“Poetry is seeing everything when there is only one thing. It is looking at a rose but seeing the stars, moons, seas, and trees. It is a truth beyond logic, an experience beyond thought. Poetry is the Earth pausing on its axis in order to manifest itself as a rose.”

Kamand Kojouri

“We reveal most about ourselves when we speak about others.”

Kamand Kojouri