I like to think that we’re not defined by what happens to us…because so many times they’re beyond our control. I like to think that we’re defined by our choices and our decisions.

It's not what happens to us that defines us. It's what we choose to do with what happens to us that defines us.

I like to think that we’re not defined by what happens to us…because so many times they’re beyond our control. I like to think that we’re defined by our choices and our decisions.

You will always have value and nothing can change that.

Knowing it can always get worse, I try to be grateful for whatever good I have.

What is poetry? Do not enquire. The secret dies by prying. How does the heart beat? I fainted when I saw it on the screen, opening and closing like a flower ... Poetry is like this, it is life moving, terrible, vivid. Look the other way when you write, or you might faint.

But those with shattered souls find it very difficult to speak.