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Rupi Kaur
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“loneliness is a sign you are in desperate need of yourself.”
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“how you love yourself is / how you teach others / to love you.”
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“what is stronger / than the human heart / which shatters over and over / and still lives.”
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“i didn't leave because / i stopped loving you, / i left because the longer / i stayed the less i loved myself.”
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“every time you / tell your daughter / you yell at her / out of love / you teach her to confuse / anger with kindness / which seems like a good idea / till she grows up to / trust men who hurt her / cause they look so much / like you.”
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“people go / but how / they left / always stays.”
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“fall / in love / with your solitude.”
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“if you are not enough for yourself / you will never be enough / for someone else.”
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“you must / want to spend / the rest of your life / with yourself / first.”
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“what is the greatest lesson a woman should learn / that since day one / she's already had everything she needs within herself / it's the world that convinced her she did not.”
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“if you have never / stood with the oppressed / there is still time.”
Rupi Kaur, Indian-born Canadian poet
(1992)