Poetry Quote by Warsan Shire — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Occasionally,”

“We took such care of tomorrow, but died on the way there.”

“Loving you was like going to war; I never came back the same.”

“No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark.”

“You are her mother.”

““With you, intimacy colours my voice.”

“So runs my dream, but what am I?”

“With the need for the self in the time of another / I left my seaport grim and dear / knowing good work could be made / in the state governed by both Hope and Despair.”

“Some who grow dull religious straight commence”

“The secret to life is to live as though you know the secret.”

“How could it be wished”

“THERE is something in the autumn that is native to my blood—”