Quotes by : Naomi Shihab Nye

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

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

No one lives in these regionsof rock and sun. It is a lucky part of the world; to grow old without buildings....

Poetry [is] more necessary than ever as a fire to light our tongues.

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 love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else's story, the delicious ache of....

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

you will never catch up.Walk around feeling like a leafknow you could tumble at any second.Then decide....

You know, those of us who leave our homes in the morning and expect to find them there when we go back....