“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” MaySeemsTreeWalkingSingingBirdAbsurdDesertPending Author:Kiki Dimoula
“All that we are and all that we've ever felt, words have felt it first.” FirstsFelt Author:Kiki Dimoula
“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.” IfsGivingPassionGrowsBitsOffersPersistLove Grows Author:Kiki Dimoula
“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.” LongLinesEssentialsPagesTitlesLengthVerses Author:Kiki Dimoula
“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.” IfsWritingFactsSufferingAlivePaperCrisisSurrenderExistentialSheetsWhitenessExistential Crisis Author:Kiki Dimoula
“If anything needs love it is reality, for it is reality that lacks it the most - I doubt that it was ever loved.” IfsNeedsRealityDoubtNeed Love Author:Kiki Dimoula
“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.” EsteemSoothingHumiliateLove AlwaysLotion Author:Kiki Dimoula
“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.” IfsCareFallOne ThingFruitRipeRelishRipe Fruit Author:Kiki Dimoula
“What I try to do is to keep emotion on a tight leash; otherwise, it can never be transubstantiated into poetry.” TryingEmotionLeashes Author:Kiki Dimoula
“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.” IfsWould BeHeatMarchAspireVery HappySuperfluousShadyScorching Author:Kiki Dimoula
