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Ilyas Kassam

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Ilyas Kassam is a London-based Visual Artist and Poet. His works centre around the notion of infinity and the role language plays within the mystical experience.

He is the author of Reminiscence of the Present, a resident poet at The Public Sphere London, co-host of Karl Marx Does the Washing Up podcast, and was an exhibitor at the 2018 International Ismaili Islamic Arts Festival. His poetry has been published in collections by New River Press, Reconstructed magazine, Simon and Schuster, Horizon Magazine, Space Zine, Design Kompany and Rivista Magazine, and has been exhibited in Japan alongside the famed Misuzu Kaneko.

"I’m speechless… what kind of writer am I? With all this love and no words for it?"

“I’m speechless… what kind of writer am I? With all this love and no words for it?”

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“If nature has taught us anything it is that the impossible is probable”
Ilyas Kassam

“It is more Important to be of pure intention than of perfect action.”
Ilyas Kassam

“I think to think. Not to be thought-full, or to reach a point of wisdom or acquire a grace of knowledge. I think for the sensuality of thought.”
Ilyas Kassam

“All at Once Is What Eternity Is.”
Kenneth Patchen, Wonderings

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
Albert Camus

“I don't know the question, but sex is definitely the answer.”
Woody Allen

“Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.”
Woody Allen
tags: life

“It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.”
E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

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