Luljeta Lleshanaku

Childhood is usually identified with fantasy, adventure, and dreaming. But mine didn't offer a lot of hope. I could read my future…

— Luljeta Lleshanaku

Years ago, I thought that if a person had experienced injustice in her life, it meant she would be fair, because she…

— Luljeta Lleshanaku

Each language has its own temperament; some languages make a poem more dramatic or sad, and others make it more playful.

— Luljeta Lleshanaku

We usually understand freedom as meaning that there are many choices - but does having more choices, or believing we do, actually…

— Luljeta Lleshanaku

In my family there was no small talk, only talk about serious things like global politics - trying to interpret the distant…

— Luljeta Lleshanaku

I come from a culture that was isolated for a long time - I have my own story to tell, in my…

— Luljeta Lleshanaku

Very often I hear talk about female literature, or femininity in literature. It's a categorization I am not sure about. Maybe there…

— Luljeta Lleshanaku

Jean-Paul Sartre said that France was freer than ever during the German occupation, when people had no choices but one: to collaborate…

— Luljeta Lleshanaku

Words are delicate instruments: How to use them so that, after having read the poem, the taste remaining is not of the…

— Luljeta Lleshanaku

Albania was a very isolated country, politically, economically, and culturally. Our only connection to the world was through a radio program called…

— Luljeta Lleshanaku

To me, poetry is a rational act. I never write a poem if I'm not sure what I am going to say…

— Luljeta Lleshanaku

Totalitarian regimes produce a culture and a moral code that is totally different from what happens in a democracy. There are two…

— Luljeta Lleshanaku