There's a condensed softness about the Albanian people, and I've witnessed examples of their hospitality.

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

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

I feel every medium of art needs to heal to some degree. It can't live in it's own void, and this came from my earliest experiences as a young refugee.

I need to be able to write a poem after every film and to kind of cleanse myself from the character because for about three months or so, I'm constantly living through the character's eyes.

There's always an added element of a poem when it's read aloud because then you can really hear the rhythm, and the cadence, and even the pronunciation sometimes adds another layer to the poem.

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.