I used to submit to anthologies and magazines when I was a student – but I knew I was never going to be picked up. Rupi Kaur Read Quote
I wasn’t trying to write a book; it wasn’t even in my vision. I was posting stuff online just because it made me feel relieved – as a way of getting things off my chest. Rupi Kaur Read Quote
For me, the power of the poetry in ‘Milk and Honey’ is the feeling you get after finished reading the poem. It’s the emotion you feel once you’ve read the last word, and that is only possible when the diction is easy, and you don’t get stuck on every other word, you don’t know what the word means. Rupi Kaur Read Quote
My gut is so strong. I feel like I have a lot of books in me, and they’re going to come out because I said so. It’s going to happen. Rupi Kaur Read Quote
The pain that all people experience in life and the light that helps them champion through it all – it’s their lives and their stories and their love and will to keep living that moves me to write. Rupi Kaur Read Quote
People like that I wrote a book – that’s cute, but oh, making a business out of it? That’s not nice. Rupi Kaur Read Quote
I write from the various experiences I live. Not every poem comes from my personal experience, though. It could be something that a friend lived, or a person from my community here, or a woman anywhere around the world. Rupi Kaur Read Quote
I did not start out thinking I’m going to become a feminist poet. It was a tag I was given. Rupi Kaur Read Quote
My favourite character in fiction was probably either James from ‘James and the Giant Peach’ or Ender from ‘Ender’s Game.’ They were just ordinary people who were living under various amounts of struggle, and just to follow their journeys and see them break out of that and live extraordinary lives – I think that gave me a lot of hope as a kid. Rupi Kaur Read Quote
