Kiki Dimoula Quotes

#1. 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.

Kiki Dimoula

#2. 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.

Kiki Dimoula

#3. 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.

Kiki Dimoula

#4. 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.

Kiki Dimoula

#5. 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.

Kiki Dimoula

#6. One always has a choice.

Dona Wording

#7. You speculate on the luxury of wearing out a whole existence in bed, like an oyster in its shell, content with the sluggish ecstasy of inaction.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#8. Speaking as a builder, if you start something, you must have a vision of the thing which arises from your instinct about preserving and enhancing what is there ... If you're working correctly, the feeling doesn't wander about.

Christopher Alexander

#9. 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

#10. You might perhaps like to see the few canvases I was able to save from the bailiffs and the rest, since I thought you might be so good as to help me a little, as I am in quite a desperate state, and the worst is that I can no longer even work.

Claude Monet

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

Kiki Dimoula

#12. Reason cannot account for those moments in life that "bewilder the intellect yet utterly quiet the heart," as G.K. Chesterton observed.

Eric Weiner

#13. I've grown extremely tired
of the face of the world.

Kiki Dimoula

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

Kiki Dimoula

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

Kiki Dimoula

#16. 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.

Kiki Dimoula