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

Bound in primal longings, we pine to be understood by ourselves.

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.

I would like my books to stand as a tool to unbind children from expectations of poetry because it should free the child to self-expression and exploration.

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.

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

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