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Warsan Shire Quotes

born 1988 United Kingdom

Warsan Shire FRSL (August 1, 1988) is a British writer, poet, editor and teacher, who was born to Somali parents in Kenya.

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I wrote the poem for them, for my family and for anyone who has experienced or lived around grief and trauma in that way.

His eyes were the same colour as the sea in a postcard someone sends you when they love you, but not enough to stay.

My poems come to me in images, like film. I can see it very clearly and then this overwhelming urge to write out best what I just saw comes over me…

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Warsan Shire (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.