KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Rupi Kaur Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by Rupi Kaur

Showing 51-60 of 69 Quotes by Rupi Kaur

I have always been a fan of Salvador Dali, but Amrita Sher-Gil, who was an Indian-Hungarian painter, is another favourite. She was painting Indian women, and, growing up here, I'd never seen anyone paint Indian women, so that was really incredible to see a painting of someone who looks like you. I think that has a lot of impact on you.

~Rupi Kaur

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I love Roald Dahl, Sharon Olds, Nizar Qabbani, who is a poet, and Junot Diaz.

~Rupi Kaur

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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.

~Rupi Kaur

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Being that my parents and I were immigrants to Canada, I didn't have the most lavish life growing up.

~Rupi Kaur

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I'm a brown girl from a Punjabi pind raised in Toronto. I don't expect literary critics and purists to understand the nuances of my experiences, and the experiences of the people around me... And my tradition holds that there is a magic in the written word. So how I write, what I write of, and why I write all comes naturally.

~Rupi Kaur

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I wasn't entitled to dream so big. The idea of me being a writer wasn't even possible in my mind. Even when I began to write and first published, I couldn't call myself a writer.

~Rupi Kaur

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


People like that I wrote a book - that's cute, but oh, making a business out of it? That's not nice.

~Rupi Kaur

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I did not start out thinking I'm going to become a feminist poet. It was a tag I was given.

~Rupi Kaur

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Poet

Born: October 5th, 1992

Links

Find Rupi Kaur on Amazon

Related Authors

Maya Angelou
T. S. Eliot
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Robert Frost
Khalil Gibran
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Edgar Allan Poe
Rabindranath Tagore

Popular Authors

Noam Chomsky Snoop Dogg Thomas A. Edison Steve Jobs Dolly Parton Frank Sinatra Mark Twain Mary Wollstonecraft

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1839 - John D. Rockefeller

1621 - Jean De La Fontaine

1836 - Joseph Chamberlain

1867 - Kathe Kollwitz

1868 - Vincent Mcnabb

1892 - Richard Aldington

1893 - Fritz Perls

1898 - Alec Waugh

1906 - Philip Johnson

1907 - George W. Romney

Birthdays on July 8th
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Father's Day Happiness Marriage Medical Memorial Day Motivational Saint Patrick's Day Space