There was no market for poetry about trauma, abuse, loss, love, and healing through the lens of a Punjabi-Sikh immigrant woman. — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
“wish pure love and soft peace upon the ones who've been unkind to you and keep moving forward - this will free… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
“that’s the thing about love it marinates your lips till the only word your mouth remembers is his name” — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
Just because someone tells you they love you, it doesn't mean they actually do. — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
I love Roald Dahl, Sharon Olds, Nizar Qabbani, who is a poet, and Junot Diaz. — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
“i can’t help it you might not have been my first love but you were the love that made all the other… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
“can someone explain that. how even when the love leaves. it doesn’t leave. how even when i am so past you. i… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
“if I am the longest relationship of my life isn't it time to nurture intimacy and love with the person I lie… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
“Every time you tell your daughter you yell at her out of love you teach her to confuse anger with kindness which… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
The pain that all people experience in life and the light that helps them champion through it all - it's their lives… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
I won the speech competition in class, and I always say this was my first 'spoken word performance.' It was the first… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
“i learned love is about giving. everything. and letting it hurt. i learned vulnerability is always the right choice because it is… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
“day by day i realize everything i miss about you was never there in the first place - the person i fell… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
“no it won’t be love at first sight when we meet it’ll be love at first remembrance cause i’ve seen you in… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
“what is it with you and sunflowers he asks i point to the field of yellow outside sunflowers worship the sun i… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
“why am i always running in circles between wanting you to want me and when you want me deciding it is too… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
“how do i welcome in kindness when i have only practiced spreading my legs for the terrifying what am i to do… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
“love does not look like a person love is our actions love is giving all we can even if it's just the… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
“i need someone who knows struggle as well as i do someone willing to hold my feet in their lap on days… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
“where do we go from here my love when it's over and i'm standing between us whose side do i run to… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
“what love looks like what does love look like the therapist asks one week after the breakup and i’m not sure how… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
“it has been one of the greatest and most difficult years of my life. i learned everything is temporary. moments. feelings. people.… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
“neither of us is happy but neither of us wants to leave so we keep breaking one another and calling it love” — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
“he was supposed to be the first male love of your life you still search for him everywhere - father” — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
“you might not have been my first love but you were the love that made all the other loves irrelevant” — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
“to make him the one and it took me three years to realize love doesn’t work like that” — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
I haven't had the opportunity to study visual art, but it was always my first love when it came to artistic expression.… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
“my voice is the offspring of two countries colliding what is there to be ashamed of if english and my mother tongue… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
“i smile shyly confessing i can’t help it you might not have been my first love but you were the love that… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
A lot of Indian fathers don't know how to show affection. My parents really do love me, even though my dad has… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
“sometimes i love you means i want to love you sometimes i love you means i’ll stay a little while longer sometimes… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
“every time you tell your daughter you yell at her out of love you teach her to confuse anger with kindness which… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
“he says i am sorry i am not an easy person to want i look at him surprised who said i wanted… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
How do you redefine love when your idea of love is something that's so violent? When your idea of passion is anger,… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
“i learned love is about giving. everything. and letting it hurt. i learned vulnerability is always the right choice because it is easy to… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
“you look just like your mother i guess i do carry her tenderness well you both have the same eyes cause we are both… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
“when my mother was pregnant with her second child i was four i pointed at her swollen belly confused at how my mother had… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
“i had to leave i was tired of allowing you to make me feel anything less than whole” — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
“Sua arte Não é a quantidade de pessoas Que gostam do seu trabalho Sua arte É O que seu coração acha do seu trabalho… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
“i tried to find it but there was no answer at the end of the last conversation - closure” — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
“Acima de tudo ame Como se fosse a única coisa que você sabe fazer No fim do dia isso tudo Não significa nada Esta… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
“the right one does not stand in your way they make space for you to step forward” — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
“let it go let it leave let it happen nothing in this world was promised or belonged to you anyway - all you own… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
“i woke up thinking the work was done i would not have to practise today how naive to think healing was that easy when… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
“I don't know why I split myself open for others knowing sewing myself up hurts this much afterward.” — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
