Rupi Kaur

despite knowing

— Rupi Kaur

and here you are living

— Rupi Kaur

How do you redefine love when your idea of love is something that's so violent? When your idea of passion is anger, how do you fix that?

— Rupi Kaur

i have survived far too much to go quietly

— Rupi Kaur

do not look for healing

— Rupi Kaur

Really, at the end of the day, the only thing you can control is yourself; the only person you can truly educate is yourself. You have to redefine what beauty is to you so you can't be affected by what people are saying.

— Rupi Kaur

you were not wrong for leaving

— Rupi Kaur

People aren’t used to poetry that’s so easy and simple.

— Rupi Kaur

I used to submit to anthologies and magazines when I was a student – but I knew I was never going to be picked up. All their writing was, you know, about the Canadian landscape or something. And my poem is about this woman with her legs spread open.

— Rupi Kaur

When you see someone who looks like your mom there and she’s like ‘this puts so much of my pain into something concrete that I can hold,’…That’s when I’m like okay, I’m doing something right and I just want to keep doing it.

— Rupi Kaur

stay

— Rupi Kaur

do not look for healing

— Rupi Kaur