Shefali Dang > Quotes

“sometimes i wish i wasn’t a poet, but somebody’s muse instead. to have words of yearning written lovingly in my name, to be immortalized on the pages of notebooks, and to be the reason in the quiet of the night a poet picks up his pen.”
― Shefali Dang, Blush

“if you have to judge me, judge me when i’ve made it through the darkness and i’m basking in the sunlight — not when i’m sinking in quicksand, unable to see the right from wrong. if you have to judge me, judge my whole book — not a page. because a page does not define me.”
― Shefali Dang, Blush

“we share easily what we have in abundance — love or hate, kindness or anger, soul or darkness.”
― Shefali Dang, Blush

“love what being in love with myself is doing to me. i’m watching myself bloom.”
― Shefali Dang, Blush

“there is so much i want to say,
so many thoughts running through my mind,
but every word i wish to express
screams the same thing:
judge a little less.
be a lot more kind.”
― Shefali Dang, Blush