Kiki Dimoula Quotes

• All that we are and all that we've ever felt, words have felt it first.

  Kiki Dimoula

  Firsts, Felt

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• You are walking in a desert.You hear a bird singing.As absurd as it may seem for a bird to be pending in the desert,you are obligated to make it a tree.That's poem

  Kiki Dimoula

  Bird, Tree, Singing

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• If anything needs love it is reality, for it is reality that lacks it the most - I doubt that it was ever loved.

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  Reality, Doubt, Needs

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• I've grown extremely tired
  of the face of the world.

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  Tired, World, Faces

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• Life's essential length is only a few pages long, as succinct as a line of verse and as brief as the title of a poem.

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  Long, Titles, Essentials

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• Love grows by not giving to us. And if our passion for poetry lives on and persists, it is because poetry offers us only its bits of lint.

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  Passion, Giving, Love Grows

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• I don't aspire, but I would be very happy if one of my poems suddenly offered someone a shady rest stop, a breather in our interminable march under the murderous, scorching heat of the superfluous.

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  Would Be, Heat, March

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• Poetry contains love and holds it in high esteem, even though love always humiliates it by using it merely as a soothing after-shave lotion.

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  Soothing, Esteem, Lotion

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• I write very rarely. Only, in fact, when the sheet of paper suffers an existential crisis and threatens, if I don't surrender to it, to bury me alive under its whiteness.

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  Writing, Suffering, Facts

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• What I try to do is to keep emotion on a tight leash; otherwise, it can never be transubstantiated into poetry.

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  Trying, Emotion, Leashes

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• Poetry relishes ripe fruit - but ripe is one thing and overripe quite another. That's something poetry doesn't like, so it couldn't care less if I were to fall overripe to the ground.

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  Fall, Care, Fruit

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