I won't glorify or romanticise heartbreak, for me it was a kind of death and I was forced to keep living.

Make love like you have no secrets like you've never been left never been hurt like the world don't owe you a single wretched thing.

And you tried to change, didn't you? Closed your mouth more. Tried to be softer, prettier, less volatile, less awake... You can't make homes out of human beings. Someone should have already told you that. And if he wants to leave, then let him leave. You are terrifying, and strange, and beautiful. Something not everyone knows how to love.

I won't glorify or romanticise heartbreak, for me it was a kind of death and I was forced to keep living.

I belong deeply to myself.

Poetry is like a portrait of a moment or person, and the poem is almost like looking at a photograph; it slaps you in the face and kisses you at the same time. Nothing else does that, with that brevity. Songs try to do it, but that's three minutes. A poem, you read it and it kind of changes your life and you don't know how it happened and you can never forget it. It's like the best song lyric, the best line from a film-everything in the world that's short and great put together.

We took such care of tomorrow, but died on the way there.