As poets, our lamentations are glorious, filled with the virtues angles would learn to envy.

I felt it's vague enough for the reader to pull their own story and their wisdom out of the poem, but for me, it's actually very painfully transparent what I've written. Sometimes very literal, which is scary.

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

My mother's only wish was to start a life in America because America was the cradle of every promise and opportunity.

I'm not religious, and I feel that has to do with me being uprooted so many times in my life that I've explored many religions and sentiments from many different families basically across the globe.

I feel in poetry there aren't that many rules that you need to absolutely live by depending on your style of poetry.

I think going back to school, studying as much as you can, especially literature and close reading some of the most beautiful works. You can always apply that to acting.