As the saying goes, you might as well be yourself; everyone else is taken.

The language you use for your poems should be the language you use with your friends.

Rumi is astounding, fertile, abundant, almost more an excitable library of poetry than a person.

Be careful how quickly you give away your fire.

As I've gotten older, I find I am able to be nourished more by sorrow and to distinguish it from depression.

We spend our life until we’re twenty deciding what parts of ourself to put into the bag, and we spend the rest of our lives trying to get them out again.

Siblings tend not to care much about boundaries and borders. Having worn each others' T-shirts, it's unlikely that they'd go to war over a border.