I write very rarely. Only, in fact, when the sheet of paper suffers an existential crisis and threatens, … - Kiki Dimoula - Quotesmemo.com

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We were talking about the kissing in the movie just recently. Clearly, it's pretty challenging material, but Ang said two men herding sheep was far more sexual than two men having sex on screen.

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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.

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

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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

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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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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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