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Loneliness is the price we pay for self-awareness.
The past is never truly past; it lives inside us.
We are all waiting for something, even if we don’t know what it is.
Time does not move in a straight line; it folds back on itself.
I write to understand what has happened to me, to transform my shame into language.
Memory is not just personal, it's collective. We remember through others and others remember through us.
I believe that any human life is worthy of being narrated, that it even deserves literature's illumination.
We carry our homelands within us, even as we leave them behind.
Stories are the way we make sense of the chaos of existence.
The past is always with us, for it feeds the present.
Memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be driven.
The poet’s job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name.
I don’t think poetry is based just on poetry; it is based on a thoroughly lived life.
I’ve always been attracted to the idea of a voice that is absolutely authoritative and yet absolutely humble.
We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory.
We are all detectives of our own past.
Paris is a city where you can lose yourself and find yourself at the same time.
We are all haunted by the shadows of our former selves.
We live among myths, and sometimes we don’t even realize it.
People don’t want to remember pain; they want to remember love. But pain is also part of our history.