Childhood is usually identified with fantasy, adventure, and dreaming. But mine didn't offer a lot of hope. I could read my future in my palm. Everything foretold: "You have no future!" A person must be very strong to keep going… — Luljeta Lleshanaku Copy Share Image
In my family there was no small talk, only talk about serious things like global politics - trying to interpret the distant political signs, looking desperately for some hope things would change. Religion was forbidden beginning in 1968, when I… — Luljeta Lleshanaku Copy Share Image
Childhood is usually identified with fantasy, adventure, and dreaming. But mine didn't offer a lot of hope. I could read my future in my… — Luljeta Lleshanaku Copy Share Image
Years ago, I thought that if a person had experienced injustice in her life, it meant she would be fair, because she would know… — Luljeta Lleshanaku Copy Share Image
Each language has its own temperament; some languages make a poem more dramatic or sad, and others make it more playful. — Luljeta Lleshanaku Copy Share Image
We usually understand freedom as meaning that there are many choices - but does having more choices, or believing we do, actually make us… — Luljeta Lleshanaku Copy Share Image
In my family there was no small talk, only talk about serious things like global politics - trying to interpret the distant political signs,… — Luljeta Lleshanaku Copy Share Image
I come from a culture that was isolated for a long time - I have my own story to tell, in my own style,… — Luljeta Lleshanaku Copy Share Image
Very often I hear talk about female literature, or femininity in literature. It's a categorization I am not sure about. Maybe there are a… — Luljeta Lleshanaku Copy Share Image
Jean-Paul Sartre said that France was freer than ever during the German occupation, when people had no choices but one: to collaborate or to… — Luljeta Lleshanaku Copy Share Image
Words are delicate instruments: How to use them so that, after having read the poem, the taste remaining is not of the words themselves,… — Luljeta Lleshanaku Copy Share Image
Albania was a very isolated country, politically, economically, and culturally. Our only connection to the world was through a radio program called Voice of… — Luljeta Lleshanaku Copy Share Image
To me, poetry is a rational act. I never write a poem if I'm not sure what I am going to say or what… — Luljeta Lleshanaku Copy Share Image
Totalitarian regimes produce a culture and a moral code that is totally different from what happens in a democracy. There are two moral categories… — Luljeta Lleshanaku Copy Share Image
