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

“Don't assume, ask. Be kind. Tell the truth. Don't say anything you can't stand behind fully. Have integrity. Tell people how you feel.”

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

“Occasionally,”

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

“Your daughter is ugly.”

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

“I yearn to make these scars disappear”

“How can I tell Bob that my happiness streams from having wrenched a piece out of my life, a piece of hurt and beauty, and transformed it to typewritten words on paper? How can he know I am justifying my life, my keen emotions, my feeling, by turning it into print?”

“all they want to do”

“A reader takes poetry deep within him or her by accommodating it within his/her range of consciousness. So there is a possibility that the poems are received and understood differently when they enter into readers’ sphere.”

“And, even yet, I dare not let it languish,”

“But some nights, I must tell you,”