Sonja Hoxha

“I never told you about the trip to Portugal 3 years ago when I read Fernando Pessoa at 1 a.m. outside a small family-run restaurant by the harbour. If I close my eyes I can still smell the salt water and the fish, some sort of cleaning powder scent from the kitchen, can still feel the heat, a soft wind and me sitting with wide open eyes on my own at 1 a.m. writing what I thought was profound and excellent. I felt like a writer then. I was not a girlfriend or a daughter or a songwriter who never got signed—I was a writer in the truest sense and I lived in my own flames.”
― Charlotte Eriksson, He loved me some days. I'm sure he did: 99 essays on growth through loss

“The poet Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz advises that if you’ve told a story more than three times in your life, it should be a poem.”
― Megan Falley, How Poetry Can Change Your Heart

“I speak English to my accountants, French to my ambassadors, Italian to my mistress, Latin to my God, and German to my horse”
― Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor

“No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.”
― Edvard Munch