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

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

“Occasionally,”

“You are her mother.”

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

“Your daughter is ugly.”

“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.”

“Depression/The assassin inside me”

“Thus weary of the world, away she hies,”

“To be nobody but”

“Since then, at an uncertain hour,”

“...But...to sing,”

“We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another day; and no sunrise finds us where sunset left us. Even while the earth sleeps we travel. We are the seeds of the tenacious plant, and it is in our ripeness and our fullness of heart that we are given to the wind and are scattered.”