Kiki Dimoula Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

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

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

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

I've grown extremely tired
of the face of the world. — 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. — Kiki Dimoula