Quotes from Masiela Lusha

My mother's only wish was to start a life in America because America was the cradle of every promise and opportunity.

While some mothers sing lullabies to their children, my mother read me poetry. And to this day, I associate my strongest and most insistent feelings with words lyrically organized on a page.

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

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.

I always feel vulnerable talking about the poetry aspect of my career because it's little diary entries that I need to sometimes close read, and to reveal that much, it's a bit nerve-racking.

I feel my poetry has contributed through all these languages that I needed to learn leading up to English.

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

Definitely routine is the bedrock of our relationship.

It is the show that keeps giving. Every night it offers something to society, and it offered something to every one of us. It brought us all together for a lifetime.

I feel it is our inherent duty as a humane society, above any intangible responsibility, to invest in our world's children's potential, passion and confidence.

I always have to do more to contribute to society.

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.

I'm not religious, and I feel that has to do with me being uprooted so many times in my life that I've explored many religions and sentiments from many different families basically across the globe.

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

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.

We fall in love forever many times, and many times we die.

I'm an actress, primarily. I love to write poetry. I've been writing poetry since I was 12 years old.

My experiences there truly defined who I am to this day as far as my humanitarian work because I was a refugee in Albania.

Through my former experiences, writing poetry and learning other languages leading up to English I find ways to stitch words together that may seem a bit odd, but somehow, sometimes they do work.

I feel like I try not to limit myself. So every experience so far, I've just gone headlong into.