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

- Luljeta Lleshanaku

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

- 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 in my palm. Everyt…

- Luljeta Lleshanaku

I come from a culture that was isolated for a long time - I have my own story to tell, in my own style, and an aesthetic approach that was mostly sel…

- Luljeta Lleshanaku

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

- 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 or to resist. …

- Luljeta Lleshanaku

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

- 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 or what I want to communicate.

- Luljeta Lleshanaku

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

- Luljeta Lleshanaku