Our nature as sensitive beings is far too complex to break apart, re-examine and reshape in a poem.

As a poet and as an actress, we're taught to be far more elaborate with our words and - I wouldn't say generalize, but definitely stronger with our choices.

My experiences there truly defined who I am to this day as far as my humanitarian work because I was a refugee in Albania.

I'm thinking like the character in order to be as authentic as I can. But after a while, how would I be able to cleanse myself from this unless I do something that's a different medium but also creative. That's what I do. It's my little ritual. After every filming, I just write a poem about it and my character specifically and I can let her go.

Our nature as sensitive beings is far too complex to break apart, re-examine and reshape in a poem.

We're renting the space that we call Earth, so we may as well just go for it.

Through my former experiences, writing poetry and learning other languages leading up to English I find ways to stitch words together that may seem a bit odd, but somehow, sometimes they do work.