Poetry is a lyrical insinuation. Often, its melodic subtlety kisses the subconscious mind.

I've been to Asia, but I'd love to go to Thailand. I'd love to go to some rural areas in China.

In the end we're all searching for our home, that one place where we belong.

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

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 love making pizza with cauliflower dough. Again, can't taste the difference once you add enough ingredients.

We stalk the truth as poets, sensualists, a duality, limited insanity. We labor in our muse, carving alphabets of experience into our hearts.

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

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.

We have such a finite amount of hours on this planet, and there is just no excuse for living a mundane, predictable life in life.

Although I was calm as a child, I had this restlessness about me–this need and hunger to create my own world. Poetry filled that void, and its words fed that vital necessity of ownership.

Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.

Wake up, live your life and sing the melody of your soul.

A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul.

Men who fish at shallow waters can never have enough fish to feed their family talk less of a nation or a generation

As a mother, you have that impulse to wish that no child should ever be hurt, or abused, or go hungry, or not have opportunities in life.

Neglect of private prayer is the locust which devours the strength of the church.

Astrology is a language. If you understand this language, the sky speaks to you.

Even the most humble role, I've always felt really wildly grateful to be getting anywhere in film business.

A good movie with bad music can kill a great dramatic scene.

Genius seems to consistent merely in trueness of sight.