Poetry Quote by Nayyirah Waheed — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

““Desire is the kind of thing that”

“If someone does not want me it is not the end of the world. But if I do not want me, the world is nothing but endings.”

“the worst”

“if we must”

“you”

“never”

“I am that last, that”

“I hunger for your sleek laugh and your hands the color of a furious harvest. I want to eat the sunbeams flaring in your beauty.”

“How are poets able to unzip what they see around them, calling forth a truer essence from behind a common fact? Why, reading a verse about a pear, do you see past the fruit in so transcendent a way?”

“The grave's a fine and private place,”

“you owe it to yourself”

“I am simply a complicated girl”