sometimes i stay up thinking of all the places you are hurting which you’ll never care to mention. “I don’t blame you for not knowing how to remain soft with me. Of man I’d want to raise my son to be like” “the world gives you so much pain and here you are making gold out of it i am hopelessly a lover, and a dreamer, and that will be the death of me” i always jump thinking he will catch me at the fall. I always let him tell me i am beautiful and half believe it. “your body is a museum of natural disasters can you grasp how stunning that is” “you are the faint line between faith and blindly waiting – letter to my future lover” ― Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey Best Rupi Kaur Poems On Feminism “you must want to spend the rest of your life with yourself first” “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” “it takes grace to remain kind in cruel situations” “The thing about writing is I can’t tell if it’s healing or destroying.” as if i did not remain all these things after you left.” as if i was already not these things before i met you. thinking it was you who gave me strength. giving you credit for my warmth simply because you had felt it. when it was i that showed you how to fill. did i sit here soaking in the idea that no one else would love me that way. it was a reflection of everything i gave you. but what i didn’t know was how you loved me had so much to do with the person i was. “it was when I stopped searching for home within others and lifted the foundations of home within myself I found there were no roots more intimate than those between a mind and body that have decided to be whole.” ― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers Rupi Kaur Poems And Quotes About Self-Love “You do not just wake up and become the butterfly” ― Rupi Kaur Rupi Kaur Love Poems And Quotes From The Book The Sun And Her Flowers “i don’t know what living a balanced life feels like “what is stronger than the human heart which shatters over and over and still lives” “people go but how they left always stays” ― Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey Rupi Kaur Love Poems And Quotes From The Book 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” “if you were born with the weakness to fall you were born with the strength to rise” “Loneliness is a sign you are in desperate need of yourself.” Not because i don’t think you’re beautiful You are resilient, or you are extraordinary When you have broken mountains with your wit Something as simple as what you’re born with “i want to apologize to all the women i have called beautifulīefore i’ve called them intelligent or brave I would sit there and be like, ‘If she can do it, I can do it.’” Rupi Kaur Poetry BooksĪll of Rupi Kaur’s love poems and quotes are stunning but here are some of my favorites included from the book Milk and Honey and The Sun and Her Flowers. If I was six years old and I saw this in Barnes and Nobles, I would cry. “This name is so important on a bookshelf. Not only so, but as a woman, particularly a woman of South Asian descent, she gives a voice to many who don’t have one. As she said in Rolling Stone: People love her words because she writes relatable things and on a sensitive topic, most people can’t put them into words. Her second book The Sun and Her Flowers was released in 2017 leading her to be named on the BBC’s 100 Women. Her debut book Milk and Honey was published in 2014 and went on to sell over 3 million copies worldwide and spent more than a year on The New York TimesBest Seller list. Rupi Kaur was born on and is an Indian Born Canadian poet, illustrator, and author. She writes about love, family, heartbreak, racism, sexism, and more. Rupi Kaur Love Poems: Sharing with you the love poems of the best-selling poet of Milk and Honey and The Sun and Her Flowers.
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