Donya Rousan

“Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings.”
― W.H. Auden, New Year Letter

“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”
― Robert Frost

“Whereas story is processed in the mind in a straightforward manner, poetry bypasses rational thought and goes straight to the limbic system and lights it up like a brushfire. It's the crack cocaine of the literary world.”
― Jasper Fforde, First Among Sequels