Rupi Kaur Quotes

Rupi Kaur

Rupi Kaur is a Canadian poet, illustrator, photographer, and author. She began performing poetry in 2009 and rose to fame on Instagram, eventually becoming a popular “Instapoet” through her three collections of poetry. (Rupi Kaur Quotes)

“A lot of times
we are angry at other people
for not doing what
we should have done for ourselves”
Rupi Kaur
The Sun and Her Flowers

“Accept that you deserve more
than painful love”
Rupi Kaur
Milk and Honey

“Bees came for honey flowers giggled as they undressed themselves for the taking the sun smiled”
Rupi Kaur
The Sun and Her Flowers

“Being the loudest on earth’s playground
doesn’t make us any more important than
the dirt we crush beneath our feet
we are nothing except air
and fire and water and soil”
Rupi Kaur
Home Body

“Borders are man-made
they only divide us physically
don’t let them make us
turn on each other
– we are not enemies”
Rupi Kaur
The Sun and Her Flowers

“Can you hear the women who came before me five hundred thousand voices ringing through my neck as if this were all a stage built for them i can’t tell which parts of me are me and which parts are them can you see them taking over my spirit shaking out of my limbs to do everything they couldn’t do when they were alive”
Rupi Kaur
Home Body

“Depression is silent
you never hear it coming
and suddenly it’s
the loudest voice in your head”
Rupi Kaur
Home Body

“Despite knowing
they won’t be here for long
they still choose to live
their brightest lives”
Rupi Kaur
The Sun and Her Flowers

“Do not look for healing
at the feet of those
who broke you”
Rupi Kaur
Milk and Honey

“Do you think flowers will grow here when you and i are off building something new with someone else”
Rupi Kaur
The Sun and Her Flowers

“Every revolution starts and ends with his lips”
Rupi Kaur
Milk and Honey

“Every time you
tell your daughter
you yell at her
out of love
you teach her to confuse
anger with kindness
which seems like a good idea
till she grows up to
trust men who hurt her
cause they look so much
like you.”
Rupi Kaur
Milk and Honey

“Everything necessary to live a vivid life already exists in me”
Rupi Kaur
Home Body

“Fall in love with your solitude”
Rupi Kaur
Milk and Honey

“For if we can’t learn to be kind to each other how will we ever learn to be kind to the most desperate parts of ourselves.”
Rupi Kaur
The Sun and Her Flowers

“For you to see beauty here
does not mean
there is beauty in me
it means there is beauty rooted
so deep within you
you can’t help but
see it everywhere”
Rupi Kaur
Milk and Honey

“He placed his hands
on my mind
before reaching
for my waist
my hips
or my lips
he didn’t call me
beautiful first
he called me
exquisite
– how he touches me”
Rupi Kaur
Milk and Honey

“How can she love a man who is busy loving someone he can never get his hands on again.”
Rupi Kaur
Milk and Honey

“How is it so easy for you to be kind to people he asked milk and honey dripped from my lips as i answered cause people have not been kind to me”
Rupi Kaur
Milk and Honey

“How you love yourself is
how you teach others
to love you”
Rupi Kaur
Milk and Honey

“I am a museum full of art
but you had your eyes shut”
Rupi Kaur
Milk and Honey

“I am hopelessly
a lover and
a dreamer and
that will be the
death of me”
Rupi Kaur
Milk and Honey

“I am loving myself out of the dark.”
Rupi Kaur
Home Body

“I am not a hotel room. i am home
I am not the whiskey you want
I am the water you need
don’t come here with expectations
and try to make a vacation out of me”
Rupi Kaur
Milk and Honey

“I am not a victim of my life
what I went through
pulled a warrior out of me
and it is my greatest honor to be her”
Rupi Kaur
Home Body

“I am not my worst days
I am not what happened to me”
Rupi Kaur
Home Body

“I am of the earth
and to the earth I shall return once more
life and death are old friends
and I am the conversation between them
I am their late-night chatter
their laughter and tears
what is there to be afraid of
if I am the gift they give to each other
this place never belonged to me anyway
I have always been theirs” (Rupi Kaur Quotes)
Rupi Kaur
The Sun and Her Flowers

“I am the product of all the ancestors getting together and deciding these stories need to be told”
Rupi Kaur
The Sun and Her Flowers

“I am trusting the uncertainty
and believing I will
end up somewhere
right and good”
Rupi Kaur
Home Body

“I am water
soft enough
to offer life
tough enough
to drown it away”
Rupi Kaur
Milk and Honey

“I am your daughter. I know the small talk is the only way you know how to tell me you love me. Cause it is the only way I know how to tell you.”
Rupi Kaur
Milk and Honey

“I can’t wrap my head around the fact that I have to convince half the world’s population my body is not their bed”
Rupi Kaur
The Sun and Her Flowers

“I could take the abuse I could not take the absence”
Rupi Kaur
The Sun and Her Flowers

“I didn’t know why
I split myself open
for other knowing
sewing myself up
hurts this much
afterward”
Rupi Kaur
Milk and Honey

“I do not want to have you
to fill the empty parts of me
I want to be full on my own
I want to be so complete
I could light a whole city
and then
I want to have you
cause the two of us combined
could set it on fire”
Rupi Kaur
Milk and Honey

“I do not weep
because I’m unhappy
I weep because I have everything
yet I’m unhappy”
Rupi Kaur
The Sun and Her Flowers

“I don’t know what living a balanced life feels like
when I am sad
I don’t cry I pour
when I am happy
I don’t smile I glow
when I am angry
I don’t yell I burn
the good thing about
feeling in extremes
is when I love
I give them wings
but perhaps
that isn’t
such a good thing
cause they always
tend to leave and
you should see me
when my heart is broken
I don’t grieve
I shatter”
Rupi Kaur
Milk and Honey

“I don’t blame you for not knowing how to remain soft with me. Sometimes I stay up thinking of all the places you are hurting which you’ll never care to mention. I come from the same aching blood. From the same bone so desperate for attention I collapse in on myself. I am your daughter. I know the small talk is the only way you know how to tell me you love me. Cause it is the only way I know how to tell you.”
Rupi Kaur
Milk and Honey

“I even tried to bury myself alive
but the dirt recoiled
you have already rotted it said
there is nothing left for me to do”
Rupi Kaur
The Sun and Her Flowers

“I get so lost
in where I want to go
I forget that the place I’m in
is already quite magical”
Rupi Kaur
Home Body

“I hardened under the last loss. It took something human out of me. i used to be so deeply emotional I’d crumble on demand. But now the water has made its exit. Of course I care about the ones around me. I’m just struggling to show it. A wall is getting in the way. I used to dream of being so strong nothing could shake me. Now. I am so strong. That nothing shakes me. And all I dream is to soften.”
Rupi Kaur
The Sun and Her Flowers

“I have difficulty separating
abusive relationships
from healthy ones
I can’t tell the difference
between love and violence”
Rupi Kaur
Home Body

“I have never known anything more quietly loud than anxiety”
Rupi Kaur
Home Body

“I have survived far too much to go quietly
let a meteor take me
call the thunder for backup
my death will be grand
the land will crack
the sun will eat itself”
Rupi Kaur
The Sun and Her Flowers

“I have to honor my mind and body
if I want to sustain this journey
– life”
Rupi Kaur
Home Body

“I have what I have and I am happy I’ve lost what I’ve lost and I am still happy”
Rupi Kaur
Milk and Honey

“I hear a thousand kind words about me
and it makes no difference
yet I hear one insult
and all confidence shatters”
Rupi Kaur
The Sun and Her Flowers

“I know I
should crumble
for better reasons
but have you seen
that boy he brings
the sun to its knees
every night.”
Rupi Kaur
Milk and Honey

“I learned love is about giving. Everything. And letting it hurt. I learned vulnerability is always the right choice because it is easy to be cold in a world that makes it so very difficult to remain soft.”
Rupi Kaur
The Sun and Her Flowers

“I love that about us
how capable we are of feeling
how unafraid we are of breaking”
Rupi Kaur
Milk and Honey

“I need someone
who knows struggle
as well as I do
someone
willing to hold my feet in their lap
on days it is too difficult to stand
the type of person who gives
exactly what I need
before I even know I need it
the type of lover who hears me
even when I do not speak
is the type of understanding
I demand”
Rupi Kaur
Milk and Honey

“I notice everything I do not have
and decide it is beautiful”
Rupi Kaur
The Sun and Her Flowers

“I reached for the last bouquet of flowers you gave me now wilting in their vase one by one I popped their heads off and ate them”
Rupi Kaur
The Sun and Her Flowers

“I reduced my body to aesthetics
forgot the work it did to keep me alive
with every beat and breath
declared it a grand failure for not looking like theirs
searched everywhere for a miracle
foolish enough to not realise
I was already living in one”
Rupi Kaur
The Sun and Her Flowers

“I struggle so deeply
to understand
how someone can
pour their entire soul
blood and energy
into someone
without wanting
anything in
return”
Rupi Kaur
Milk and Honey

“I think my body knew you would not stay”
Rupi Kaur
The Sun and Her Flowers

“I want to leave this place knowing
I did something with my body
other than trying to
make it look perfect”
Rupi Kaur
Home Body

“I want you to wipe away
everything you know about love
and start with one word
kindness
give it to them
let them give it to you
be two pillars
equal in your love
and you’ll carry empires on your backs”
Rupi Kaur
Home Body

“I was made heavy half blade and half silk difficult to forget and not easy for the mind to follow” (Rupi Kaur Quotes)
Rupi Kaur
Milk and Honey

“I was not made with a fire in my belly so i could be put out.”
Rupi Kaur
Milk and Honey

“I was trying to make him the one and it took me three years to realize love doesn’t work like that”
Rupi Kaur
Home Body

“I will be searching for answers my whole life not because i’m a half-formed thing but because i’m brilliant enough to keep growing”
Rupi Kaur
Home Body

“I will no longer compare my path to others – i refuse to do a disservice to my life”
Rupi Kaur
The Sun and Her Flowers

“I will not subject myself to their ideology
because slut shaming is rape culture
virgin praising is rape culture”
Rupi Kaur
The Sun and Her Flowers

“I woke up thinking the work was done
I would not have to practice today
how naive to think healing was that easy
when there is no end point
no finish line to cross
healing is everyday work”
Rupi Kaur
The Sun and Her Flowers

“I’d be lying if I said
you make me speechless
the truth is you make my
tongue so weak it forgets
what language to speak in.”
Rupi Kaur
Milk and Honey

“I’m a new person every month always becoming and unbecoming only to become again”
Rupi Kaur
Home Body

“I’m breathing aren’t I
that’s gotta be a sign that
the universe is on my side
if I’ve made it this far
I can make it all the way”
Rupi Kaur
Home Body

“I’m too in love with my life
to be spilling all over the floor
for the next man
who gives me butterflies
when I could look in the mirror
and take my own breath away”
Rupi Kaur
Home Body

“If I am not the love of your life
I will be the greatest loss instead.”
Rupi Kaur
The Sun and Her Flowers

“If the devil hadn’t pushed you into a corner and forced you to break its neck how would you have known you were this strong”
Rupi Kaur
Home Body

“If the hurt comes
so will the happiness”
Rupi Kaur
Milk and Honey

“If you tried
and didn’t end up
where you wanted to go
that’s still progress”
Rupi Kaur
Home Body

“If you were born with the weakness to fall you were born with the strength to rise”
Rupi Kaur
Milk and Honey

“If you’re waiting for them
to make you feel like you’re enough
you’ll be waiting a long time”
Rupi Kaur
Home Body

“It is a blessing to be the color of earth
do you know how often flowers confuse me for home”
Rupi Kaur
The Sun and Her Flowers

“It isn’t blood that makes you my sister
it’s how you understand my heart
as though you carry it
in your body”
Rupi Kaur
The Sun and Her Flowers

“It isn’t what we left behind
that breaks me
it’s whatever we could’ve built
had we stayed”
Rupi Kaur
The Sun and Her Flowers

“It means nothing to me if he loves you if he can’t do a single wretched thing about it”
Rupi Kaur
Milk and Honey

“It takes grace to remain kind in cruel situations”
Rupi Kaur
Milk and Honey

“It takes monsters to steal souls
and fighters to reclaim them”
Rupi Kaur
The Sun and Her Flowers

“It’s easy to love
the nice things about ourselves
but true self-love is
embracing the difficult parts
that live in all of us”
Rupi Kaur
Home Body

“It’s impossible
for one person to
fill you up
in all the ways
you need to be filled
your partner
can’t be your everything”
Rupi Kaur
Home Body

“Learning to not envy
someone else’s blessings
is what grace looks like”
Rupi Kaur
The Sun and Her Flowers

“Let it go let it leave let it happen nothing in this world was promised or belonged to you anyway – all you own is yourself”
Rupi Kaur
The Sun and Her Flowers

“Life does not stop for anybody it drags you by the legs whether you want to move forward or not that is the gift”
Rupi Kaur
The Sun and Her Flowers

“Like the rainbow
after the rain
joy will reveal itself
after sorrow”
Rupi Kaur
The Sun and Her Flowers

“Loneliness is a sign you are in desperate need of yourself.”
Rupi Kaur
Milk and Honey

“Love does not look like a person
love is our actions
love is giving all we can
even if it’s just the bigger slice of cake
love is understanding
we have the power to hurt one another
but we are going to do everything in our power to make sure we don’t
love is figuring out all the kind sweetness we deserve
and when someone shows up
saying they will provide as you do
but their actions seem to break you
rather than build you
love is knowing whom to choose”
Rupi Kaur
The Sun and Her Flowers

“Love is not cruel
we are cruel
love is not a game
we have made a game
out of love”
Rupi Kaur
Milk and Honey

“Love is understanding we have the power to hurt one another but we are going to do everything in our power to make sure we don’t”
Rupi Kaur
The Sun and Her Flowers

“Love will come
and when love comes
love will hold you
love will call your name
and you will melt
sometimes though
love will hurt you but
love will never mean to
love will play no games
cause love knows life
has been hard enough already”
Rupi Kaur
Milk and Honey

“Masturbation is meditation”
Rupi Kaur
Home Body

“Most importantly love
like it’s the only thing you know how
at the end of the day all this
means nothing
this page
where you’re sitting
your degree
your job
the money
nothing even matters
except love and human connection
who you loved
and how deeply you loved them
how you touched the people around you
and how much you gave them”
Rupi Kaur
Milk and Honey

“My god
is not as unreachable as
they’d like you to think
my god is beating inside us infinitely”
Rupi Kaur
The Sun and Her Flowers

“My heart aches for sisters more than anything
it aches for women helping women
like flowers ache for spring”
Rupi Kaur
Milk and Honey

“My heart woke me crying last night
how can I help I begged
my heart said
write the book”
Rupi Kaur
Milk and Honey

“My mind keeps running off to dark corners and coming back with reasons for why i am not enough” (Rupi Kaur Quotes)
Rupi Kaur
Home Body

“Neither of us is happy but neither of us wants to leave so we keep breaking one another and calling it love”
Rupi Kaur
Milk and Honey

“Nothing is safer
than the sound of you
reading out loud to me”
Rupi Kaur
Milk and Honey

“People go but how they left always stays”
Rupi Kaur
Milk and Honey

“Perhaps we are all immigrants
trading one home for another
first we leave the womb for air
then the suburbs for the filthy city
in search for a better life
some of us just happen to leave entire countries”
Rupi Kaur
The Sun and Her Flowers

“Perhaps
I don’t deserve
Nice things
Cause I am paying
for sins I don’t
Remember”
Rupi Kaur
Milk and Honey

“Remind that boy your body is not his home he is a guest warn him to never outstep his welcome again”
Rupi Kaur
Milk and Honey

“Representation is vital
otherwise the butterfly
surrounded by a group of moths
unable to see itself
will keep trying to become the moth”
Rupi Kaur
The Sun and Her Flowers

“Some people are so bitter to them you must be kindest”
Rupi Kaur
Milk and Honey

“Sometimes though
love will hurt you but
love will never mean to
love will play no games
cause love knows life
has been hard enough already”
Rupi Kaur
The Sun and Her Flowers

“Sometimes
I stop myself from
saying the words out loud
as if leaving my mouth too often
might wear them down”
Rupi Kaur
The Sun and Her Flowers

“Stay strong through your pain
grow flowers from it
you have helped me
grow flowers out of mine so
bloom beautifully
dangerously
loudly
bloom softly
however you need
just bloom”
Rupi Kaur
Milk and Honey

“Tell them I was the warmest place you knew and you turned me cold”
Rupi Kaur
The Sun and Her Flowers

“The day you have everything
I hope you remember
when you had nothing”
Rupi Kaur
The Sun and Her Flowers

“The hummingbirds tell me
you’ve changed your hair
I tell them I don’t care
while listening to them
describe every detail”
Rupi Kaur
The Sun and Her Flowers

“The kindest words my father said to me
Women like you drown oceans.”
Rupi Kaur
Milk and Honey

“The right one does not
stand in your way
they make space for you
to step forward”
Rupi Kaur
The Sun and Her Flowers

“The thing about having
an alcoholic parent
is an alcoholic parent
does not exist
simply
an alcoholic
who could not stay sober
long enough to raise their kids”
Rupi Kaur
Milk and Honey

“The thing about writing is I can’t tell if it’s healing or destroying.”
Rupi Kaur
Milk and Honey

“The universe took its time on you
Crafted you to offer the world
Something different from everyone else
When you doubt
How you were created
You doubt an energy greater than us both”
Rupi Kaur
The Sun and Her Flowers

“The very thought of you
has my legs spread apart
like an easel with a canvas
begging for art”
Rupi Kaur
Milk and Honey

“The way you speak of yourself
the way you degrade yourself
into smallness
is abuse”
Rupi Kaur
The Sun and Her Flowers

“There are mountains growing
beneath our feet
that cannot be contained
all we’ve endured
has prepared us for this
bring your hammer and fists
we have a glass ceiling to shatter”
Rupi Kaur
The Sun and Her Flowers

“There is a conversation
happening inside you
pay deep attention
to what your inner world
is saying”
Rupi Kaur
Home Body

“There is a difference between someone telling you they love you and them actually loving you”
Rupi Kaur
Milk and Honey

“There is a difference between
someone telling you
they love you and
them actually
loving you”
Rupi Kaur
Milk and Honey

“There is no bigger illusion in the world
than the idea that a woman will
bring dishonor into a home
if she tries to keep her heart
and her body safe”
Rupi Kaur
Milk and Honey

“They leave
and act like it never happened
they come back
and act like they never left”

“This morning
I told the flowers
what I’d do for you
and they blossomed”
Rupi Kaur
The Sun and Her Flowers

“Together we are an endless conversation”
Rupi Kaur
The Sun and Her Flowers

“Trying to convince myself
I am allowed
to take up space
is like writing with
my left hand
when I was born
to use my right”
Rupi Kaur
Milk and Honey

“We already have the things that can complete us
they just aren’t things
they are people
and laughter and connection
– irreplaceable”
Rupi Kaur
Home Body

“We might not hear it at times but the music is always on. It just need to turned louder.” (Rupi Kaur Quotes)
Rupi Kaur
The Sun and Her Flowers

“We were always in survival mode long after we didn’t need to be”
Rupi Kaur
Home Body

“What a privilege it is to grow into the finest version of myself”
Rupi Kaur
Home Body

“What can I do to make this mountain taller so the women after me can see farther”
Rupi Kaur
The Sun and Her Flowers

“What if there isn’t enough time to give her what she deserves do you think if i begged the sky hard enough my mother’s soul would return to me as my daughter so i can give her the comfort she gave me my whole life”
Rupi Kaur
The Sun and Her Flowers

“What if
there isn’t enough time
to give her what she deserves
do you think
if I begged the sky hard enough
my mother’s soul would
return to me as my daughter
so I can give her
the comfort she gave me
my whole life”
Rupi Kaur
The Sun and Her Flowers

“What is stronger
than the human heart
which shatters over and over
and still lives”
Rupi Kaur
The Sun and Her Flowers

“What is the greatest lesson a woman should learn
that since day one
she’s already had everything she needs within herself
it’s the world that convinced her she did not”
Rupi Kaur
The Sun and Her Flowers

“When death
takes my hand
i will hold you with the other
and promise to find you
in every lifetime”
Rupi Kaur
The Sun and Her Flowers

“When it came to listening
my mother taught me silence
if you are drowning their voice with yours
how will you hear them she asked
when it came to speaking
she said do it with commitment
every word you say
is your own responsibility
when it came to being
she said be tender and tough at once
you need to be vulnerable to live fully
but rough enough to survive it all
when it came to choosing
she asked me to be thankful
for the choices I had that
she never had the privilege of making
– lessons from mumma”
Rupi Kaur
The Sun and Her Flowers

“When my daughter is living in my belly i will speak to her like she’s already changed the world she will walk out of me on a red carpet fully equipped with the knowledge that she’s capable of anything she sets her mind to”
Rupi Kaur
The Sun and Her Flowers

“When the moon rises on this coast
but the sun still burns shamelessly on yours
I crumble knowing even our skies are different”
Rupi Kaur
The Sun and Her Flowers

“When the world comes crashing at
your feet
it’s okay to let others
help pick up the pieces
if we’re present to take part in your
happiness
when your circumstances are great
we are more than capable
of sharing your pain”
Rupi Kaur
The Sun and Her Flowers

“When you are broken
and he has left you
do not question
whether you were
enough
the problem was
you were so enough
he was not able to carry it”
Rupi Kaur
Milk and Honey

“Why are you so unkind to me my body cries cause you don’t look like them I tell her”
Rupi Kaur
The Sun and Her Flowers

“Why is it
that when the story ends
we begin to feel all of it”
Rupi Kaur
The Sun and Her Flowers

“Wish pure love and soft peace upon the ones who’ve been unkind to you and keep moving forward – this will free you both”
Rupi Kaur
The Sun and Her Flowers

“Yesterday
when I woke up
the sun fell to the ground and rolled away
flowers beheaded themselves
all that’s left alive here is me
and I barely feel like living”
Rupi Kaur
The Sun and Her Flowers

“You are a mirror
if you continue to starve yourself of love
you’ll only meet people who’ll starve you too
if you soak yourself in love
the universe will hand you those
who’ll love you too”
Rupi Kaur
The Sun and Her Flowers

“You are lonely
but you are not alone
– there is a difference”
Rupi Kaur
Home Body

“You are one person
but when you move
an entire community
walks through you
-you go nowhere alone”
Rupi Kaur
Home Body

“You are snakeskin
and I keep shedding you somehow
my mind is forgetting
every exquisite detail
of your face
the letting go has
become the forgetting
which is the most
pleasant and the saddest thing
to have happened”
Rupi Kaur
Milk and Honey

“You ask
if we can still be friends
I explain how a honeybee
does not dream kissing
the mouth of a flower
and then settle for its leaves”
Rupi Kaur
The Sun and Her Flowers

“You call me to tell me you miss me
I turn to face the front door of the house
waiting for a knock
days later you call to say you need me
but still aren’t here
the dandelions on the lawn
are rolling their eyes in disappointment
the grass has declared you yesterday’s news
what do I care
if you love me
or miss me
or need me
when you aren’t doing anything about it
if I’m not the love of your life
I’ll be the greatest loss instead”
Rupi Kaur
The Sun and Her Flowers

“You cannot walk in and out of me like a revolving door i have too many miracles happening inside me to be your convenient option – not your hobby”
Rupi Kaur
The Sun and Her Flowers

“You deserve to be completely found in your surroundings not lost within them” (Rupi Kaur Quotes)
Rupi Kaur
Milk and Honey

“You didn’t lose it happiness has always been here – you just lost perspective”
Rupi Kaur
Home Body

“You do not just wake up and become the butterfly.”
Rupi Kaur
The Sun and Her Flowers

“You have everything to gain
from believing in yourself
yet you spend all your time with self-doubt”
Rupi Kaur
Home Body

“You left
and I wanted you still
yet I deserved someone
who was willing to stay”
Rupi Kaur
The Sun and Her Flowers

“You might have done
the external work
but your mind is starving
for internal attention”
Rupi Kaur
Home Body

“You must have known you were wrong when your fingers were dipped inside me searching for honey that would not come for you”
Rupi Kaur
Milk and Honey

“You must want to spend the rest of your life with yourself first”
Rupi Kaur
Milk and Honey

“You mustn’t have to make them want you they must want you themselves”
Rupi Kaur
Milk and Honey

“You pinned
my legs to
the ground
with your feet
and demanded
I stand up”
Rupi Kaur
Milk and Honey

“You tell me to quiet down cause my opinions make me less beautiful but i was not made with a fire in my belly so i could be put out I was not made with a lightness on my tongue so i could be easy to swallow i was made heavy half blade and half silk difficult to forget and not easy for the mind to follow”
Rupi Kaur
Milk and Honey

“You tell me to quiet down cause my opinions make me less beautiful but i was not made with a fire in my belly so i could be put out”
Rupi Kaur
Milk and Honey

“You were mine
and my life was full
you are no longer mine
and my life
is full”
Rupi Kaur
The Sun and Her Flowers

“You were not wrong for leaving
you were wrong for coming back
and thinking
you could have me
when it was convenient
and leave when it was not”
Rupi Kaur
Milk and Honey

“You
are your own
soulmate”
Rupi Kaur
Milk and Honey

“You’re everywhere
except right here
and it hurts”
Rupi Kaur
The Sun and Her Flowers

“Your art
is not about how many people
like your work
your art
is about
if your heart likes your work
if your soul likes your work
it’s about how honest
you are with yourself
and you
must never
trade honesty
for relatability”
Rupi Kaur
Milk and Honey

“Your name is
the strongest
positive and negative
connotation in any language
it either lights me up or
leaves me aching for days”
Rupi Kaur
Milk and Honey