Quotes by : Naomi Shihab Nye

My father was very disappointed by war and fighting. And he thought language could help us out of cycles....

only kindness that raises its headfrom the crowd of the world to sayit is I you have been looking for,and....

We dropped our troubles into the lap of the storyteller, and they turned into someone else's.

Because sometimes I live in a hurricane of wordsand not one of them can save me.

Getting over what you did to me is not why I get out of bed anymore.

Let me peer out at the worldthrough your lens. (Maybe I'll shudder,or gasp, or tilt my head in a question.)Let....

I'm like the weather, never really can predict when this rain cloud's gonna burst; when it's the high....

As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything....

Anyone who says, “Here’s my address,write me a poem,” deserves something in reply.So I’ll tell....

It is really hard to be lonely very long in a world of words. Even if you don't have friends somewhere,....