“The kind of drivel that would get you kicked out of Year Five for not trying hard enough. But it was somehow connecting with people on a genuine level. What was going on?”— Andrew Lloyd, vice.com
“Kaur is, in industry parlance, a hack. And while most of us who write for a living believe ourselves to be hacks, at least most of us don’t run around saying the ultimate goal of our work is to be blown up to poster size.”— Lindsey Adler, theconcourse.deadspin.com
“I suppose an aesthetics-first approach to poetry is the perfect strategy for an aesthetics-first platform.”— Lindsey Adler, theconcourse.deadspin.com
“if it is meant to be. fate will bring us back together. for a second i wonder if you are really that naive. if you really believe fate works like that. as if it lives in the sky staring down at us. as if it has five fingers and spends its time placing us like pieces of chess.”— Rupi Kaur, amazon.com