Poetry [is] more necessary than ever as a fire to light our tongues. — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
like our parents always told us not to like firefighters warn against we're playing games and making the rules up as we… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
There is a place to stand where you can see so many lights you forget you are one of them. — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
maybe we try too hard to be remembered, waking to the glowing yellow disc in ignorance, swearing that today will be the… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
I'm like the weather, never really can predict when this rain cloud's gonna burst; when it's the high or it's the low,… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
I grew up in St. Louis in a tiny house full of large music - Mahalia Jackson and Marian Anderson singing majestically… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
I support all people on earth who have bodies like and unlike my body, skins and moles and old scars, secret and public hair,… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
“We walked where the ancient pier juts into the sea. Stood on the rim of the pool, by the circle of black boulders. No… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
“rounded shoulders, the shoulders of women no one has touched for a long time. Men” — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
I can never see fashion models, lean angular cheeks, strutting hips and blooming hair, without thinking of the skulls at the catacombs in Lima,… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
I am looking for the human who admits his flaws Who shocks the adversary By being kinder not stronger What would that be like?… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
“Remembering your mistakes more acutely than any minor success. This was the worst. The things that kept you up at night. Tip a waiter… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
“Grief is an ambush. You’re walking along feeling fine, look down, see a leaf, and begin to weep. —Jack” — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
Teaching and writing are separate, but serve/feed one another in so many ways. Writing travels the road inward, teaching, the road out - helping… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
What did exclusivity ever have to offer but a distorted, unrealistic view of the world? People who stuck only to their own kind were… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
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