“Poetry is like a portrait of a moment or person, and the poem is almost like looking at a photograph; it slaps you in the face and kisses you at the same time. Nothing else does that, with that brevity. Songs try to do it, but that's three minutes. A poem, you read it and it kind of changes your life and you don't know how it happened and you can never forget it. It's like the best song lyric, the best line from a film-everything in the world that's short and great put together.” KnowsWorldTryingKindPersonsDoeMomentsTogetherFilmFacesSongThreeLinesForgetKnow HowHappenedMinutesKissingPhotographPoetry IsNever ForgetPortraitsChanging Your LifeForget ItSlapBrevity Author:Warsan Shire
“You are terrifying, and strange, and beautiful. Something not everyone knows how to love.” KnowsLoveBeautifulWomenLove IsKnow HowStrangeBeing AloneBeing SingleHow To LoveShire Author:Warsan Shire
“And you tried to change, didn't you? Closed your mouth more. Tried to be softer, prettier, less volatile, less awake... You can't make homes out of human beings. Someone should have already told you that. And if he wants to leave, then let him leave. You are terrifying, and strange, and beautiful. Something not everyone knows how to love.” IfsKnowsWantShouldHumansHomeBeautifulHuman BeingsBreakKnow HowStrangeMouthsShould HaveAwakeBreak UpHow To LoveShire Author:Warsan Shire
“I know a few things to be true. I do not know where I am going, where I have come from is disappearing, I am unwelcome and my beauty is not beauty here. My body is burning with the shame of not belonging, my body is longing.” KnowsBodyShameLongingDisappearBeing TrueBurningBelongingUnwelcomeNot Belonging Author:Warsan Shire
