Strength isn’t built in the breakthroughs. It’s built in the days no breakthrough comes. The quiet, heavy days. Discipline carries you forward, and grace reminds you why.
Hold on to both.
That’s how resilience is born.

Remember, your words matter and hold great power. Don’t let anyone quiet their fire.

Everyone keeps polishing their words until they shine, but I think I like mine with fingerprints on them.

Write because

someone is bleeding

in the shape only your words

can trace.

Who are poets? People who recognize that even in isolation, the spirit keeps building its own constellation with a small, trembling, and honest hand.

There’s magic in meeting a stranger who says: “Just to warn you, l’m a writer and kind of strange.” And you’re like: “You too?”. The “you too” of “here are my people”. The “you too” of I am not alone.

I love the expression “giving your poem a home”. Saying, “we will love and keep it safe. We will make it belong.”

Today I found out that my poem won in a literary competition! It is all the more special to me, as it is the first literary competition that I’ve ever entered.

I’ve seen that many poets and writers have a cat. I have a 3 months old dog that’s quite hyperactive. And yet, whenever I sit down with a book or a notebook to write, he calms down and sleeps. What a good supporter he is!

I think it’s quite stressful going to the bookstore or a library, and having someone at your neck whining, “Just pick one and let’s go.” Because what do you mean ‘pick one’? One bookstore, one library? Because I definitely cannot pick just one book.

Sometimes all it takes is to open your eyes and the world gets brighter. And yet, many people live with their eyes tightly shut. Many don’t know how to open them, and some cannot. I think what’s important is compassion. To be their eyes that see, and the light that makes their world brighter.

Starting a new social media account is like opening a book on a random page. You have no idea what it is about, while everyone else has already read the whole thing.