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Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.
— Naomi Shihab Nye
Only in words on a page can it still be yesterday.
— Naomi Shihab Nye
We dropped our troubles into the lap of the storyteller, and they turned into someone else's.
— Naomi Shihab Nye
Facts interest me less than the trailing smoke of stories.
— Naomi Shihab Nye
I keep thinking, we teach children to use language to solve their disputes. We teach them not to hit and fight and bite. Then look what adults do!
— Naomi Shihab Nye
In these evenings he sat by our beds weaving folktales like vivid little scarves.
— Naomi Shihab Nye
Energy is everything. Rubbing happy and sad together creates energy.
— Naomi Shihab Nye
Skin had hope, that's what skin does. Heals over the scarred place, makes a road.
— Naomi Shihab Nye
You will no longer pick this sage that flavors your whole life.
— Naomi Shihab Nye
Being good felt like a heavy coat, so I took it off.
— Naomi Shihab Nye
I want to be someone making music/with my coming.
— Naomi Shihab Nye
why are we so monumentally slow?
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Every day is a poetry day.
— Naomi Shihab Nye
I was a fool, and I will always be a fool, and there will never, never, be a last day of school.
— Naomi Shihab Nye
Maybe when your mother died young, you became instantly old.
— Naomi Shihab Nye
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Poetry [is] more necessary than ever as a fire to light our tongues.
— Naomi Shihab Nye
I'm still the kid dreaming of the lives she'll never have but guess what? Maybe she doesn't want them.
— Naomi Shihab Nye
But I know we need to keep warm here on earthAnd when your shawl is as thin as mine is, you tell stories. — Naomi Shihab Nye
When allowed to return to the class, your feelings of humility and lonesomeness will render you a much finer student and person.
— Naomi Shihab Nye
Sometimes a bus ride was all it took to feel better.
— Naomi Shihab Nye
Where we live in the worldis never one place. Our hearts,
those dogged mirrors, keep flashing us
moons before we are ready for them. — Naomi Shihab Nye
Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth.
— Naomi Shihab Nye
I'm not interested inwho suffered the most.
I'm interested in
people getting over it. — Naomi Shihab Nye
Those whom we did not know think they know us now.
— Naomi Shihab Nye
Being alive is a common road. It's what we notice makes us different.
— Naomi Shihab Nye
Because Ali did not want to see the deep pools of his kind teacher's eyes and fall into them. He didn't know how to swim.
— Naomi Shihab Nye
What twists or rage greater than we could ever guess had savaged skylines, thousands of lives?
— Naomi Shihab Nye
We start out as little bits of disconnected dust.
— Naomi Shihab Nye
I'm writing mostly to thank you for living you eighty years and to tell you I love you and think of you often.
— Naomi Shihab Nye
Poetry calls us to pause. There is so much we overlook, while the abundance around us continues to shimmer, on its own.
— Naomi Shihab Nye
I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else's story, the delicious ache of a last page.
— Naomi Shihab Nye
This is the world I want to live in. The shared world.
— Naomi Shihab Nye
Are people the only holy land?
— Naomi Shihab Nye
Poetry, the most intimate form of expression, gives us a deeper sense of reality than headlines and news stories ever could.
— Naomi Shihab Nye
Later our dreams begin catching fire around the edges, they burn like paper, we wake with our hands full of ash.
— Naomi Shihab Nye
Getting over what you did to me is not why I get out of bed anymore.
— Naomi Shihab Nye
I think the job of writing and literature is to encourage each one of us to believe that we're living in a story.
— Naomi Shihab Nye
I support all people on earth who have bodies like and unlike my body
— Naomi Shihab Nye
the long sorrow of the color red.
— Naomi Shihab Nye
Maybe if we re-invent whatever our lives give us we find poems.
— Naomi Shihab Nye
My mother used to tell me when I went somewhere, "Please leave your foolishness at home." But how could I do that? It was stuck on me.
— Naomi Shihab Nye
So ask yourself, you swirling tornado of a human being, in a world of disoriented honeybees, do you want to look locked out the minute you sit down?
— Naomi Shihab Nye
What did exclusivity ever have to offer but a distorted, unrealistic view of the world? People who stuck only to their own kind were scared people.
— Naomi Shihab Nye
I wondered stony afternoons owning all their vastness.
— Naomi Shihab Nye
The days are nouns: touch themThe hands are churches that worship the world — Naomi Shihab Nye
A poem is a cup of words open to the sky and wind in a bucket.
— Naomi Shihab Nye
It was terrible when a single conversation with someone determined your whole future relationship.
— Naomi Shihab Nye
There is a place to stand where you can see so many lights you forget you are one of them.
— Naomi Shihab Nye
I say yes when I mean no and the wrinkle grows. — Naomi Shihab Nye
The real heroes of race and culture would always be the people who stepped out of their own line to make a larger circle.
— Naomi Shihab Nye
The thousands small birds of January in their smooth soaring cloud finding the trees.
— Naomi Shihab Nye
What would it be like to be a turtle inside a shell hit by hailstones?
— Naomi Shihab Nye
Sometimes there's no one to listen to what you really might like to say at a certain moment. The paper always listens.
— Naomi Shihab Nye
Most days weren't clear when you were in them.
— Naomi Shihab Nye
I think of a poem as being deeper than headline news.
— Naomi Shihab Nye
There are people we have never seen who are busy thinking up things we should be worried about.
— Naomi Shihab Nye
Our limbs which had already traveled far beyond her world, carrying the click of distances in the smooth, untroubled soles of their shoes.
— Naomi Shihab Nye
