A biography for Rupi Kaurhasn’t been written yet.
“אני לומדת לאהוב אותו כשאני לומדת לאהוב אותי.”
“אם מרגישים את הסבל, האושר יבוא.”
“הקול שלך הוא שמפשיט אותי.”
“את ידידת הנפש של עצמך.”
“ נגעת בי אפילו בלי לגעת בי.”
“You have to really understand that although certain memories or stories make you sad, you are not sad. Pull yourself out from that emotion and remember that.”
“your artis not about how many peoplelike your workyour art is aboutif your heart likes your workif your soul likes your workit's about how honestyou are with yourselfand you must never trade honesty for relatability”
“If I knew what safety looked like, I would have spent less time falling into arms that were not”
“I think social media is... really cool in the sense that I don't think that a writer like me would've found a readership if maybe Instagram wasn't there.”
“i was musicbut you had your ears cut off”
“the rape willtear youin halfbut it will notend you”
“People like that I wrote a book - that's cute, but oh, making a business out of it? That's not nice.”
“I will not have youbuild me into your lifewhen what i want is tobuild a life with you-the difference”
“how you love yourself ishow you teach othersto love you”
“I love Roald Dahl, Sharon Olds, Nizar Qabbani, who is a poet, and Junot Diaz.”
“The topics just kind of come to me. If they are relevant, it's because they're happening in the world around me, and it's affecting me. Poetry is my way of dealing with it.”
“our struggle to celebrate each other is what's proven most difficult in being human”
“I was born in India, and we came from a poor family and lived in a rural village. My dad came over to Canada as a refugee, and years later, we were able to join him.”
“accept that you deserve more than painful love life is moving the healthiest thing for your heart is to move with it”
“I haven't had the opportunity to study visual art, but it was always my first love when it came to artistic expression. I started drawing and experimenting with visual art when I was 5.”