You don't see the person they are you see the person they have the potential to be you give and give till they pull everything out of you and leave you empty.
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Rupi Kaur
Rupi Kaur (Punjabi: ਰੂਪੀ ਕੌਰ) is a Canadian poet, writer, and illustrator. She is popular for her unique use of poetry with illustration, all of which she does herself. Rupi works to transform experiences of pain and longing into anthems of acceptance and triumph. She published a book of poetry and prose entitled milk and honey in 2015. The book deals with themes of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity and has been met with wild success, selling over a million copies and becoming #1 on the New York Times bestseller list. 2Life Rupi Kaur was born in Punjab, India to a Sikh family and emigrated with her parents to Toronto, Canada when she was 4. As a child, she was inspired by her mother to draw and paint, especially at a time when she was unable to speak in English with the other children at school. She used to write poems to her friends on their birthdays or messages to her middle school crushes. Growing up, she yearned for access to words written by people who looked like her, writing about things that she was going through. She studied Rhetoric and Professional Writing at the University of Waterloo, Ontari
you might not have been my first love but you were the love that made all the other loves irrelevant
you must want to spend the rest of your life with yourself first
perhaps the saddest of all are those who live waiting for someone they’re not sure exists
How you love yourself is how you teach others to love you.
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...
Your name is the strongest positive and negative connotation in any language it either lights me up or leaves me aching for days.
Neither of us is happy but neither of us wants to leave so we keep breaking one another and calling it love.
Your name is the strongest positive and negative connotation in any language it either lights me up or leaves me aching for days.
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.
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.
do not look for healing at the feet of those who broke you
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.
People go but how they left always stays
She is water: soft enough to offer life, tough enough to drown it away.
How you love yourself is how you teach others to love you.
i am water soft enough to offer life tough enough to drown it away
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.
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.
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.