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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

But pain and anguish were everywhere anyway. Might as well put them to good use. — 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? — Naomi Shihab Nye

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

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 earth
And 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 world
is 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 in
who 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

Because sometimes I live in a hurricane of words
and not one of them can save me. — 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 them
The 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

The writing of Kathleen McGookey shines more brightly than most fine things we feel pleasure to read. Celebrate it! — Naomi Shihab Nye