All Naomi Shihab Nye Quotes
- Maybe when your mother died young, you became instantly old. Became
- I have always loved the gaps, the spaces between things, as much as the things. I love staring, pondering, mulling, puttering. I love the times… Abundance
- Sometimes there’s no one to listen to what you really might like to say at a certain moment. The paper always listens. Always Listens
- Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing. Deepest
- Being alive is a common road. It's what we notice makes us different. Alive
- Read, Read, and then Read some more. Always Read. Find the voices that speak most to YOU. This is your pleasure and blessing, as well… Always Read
- Teaching and writing are separate, but serve/feed one another in so many ways. Writing travels the road inward, teaching, the road out - helping OTHERS… Encouragement
- Poetry calls us to pause. There is so much we overlook, while the abundance around us continues to shimmer, on its own. Abundance
- You know, those of us who leave our homes in the morning and expect to find them there when we go back - it's hard… Expect
- I support all people on earth who have bodies like and unlike my body... All
- Energy is everything. Rubbing happy and sad together creates energy. Creates
- For you who came so far; for you who held out, wearing a black scarf to signify grief; for you who believe true love can… Amidst
- The thousands small birds of January in their smooth soaring cloud finding the trees. Bird
- We all find ourselves involved in projects or activities that confound us-when or why did I say I would do this? What was I thinking?… Activities
- This is the world I want to live in. The shared world. Inspirational
- We start out as little bits of disconnected dust. Bits
- There is a place to stand where you can see so many lights you forget you are one of them. Forget
- I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else's story, the delicious ache of a last page. Ache
- Anyone who says, “Here’s my address, write me a poem,” deserves something in reply. So I’ll tell you a secret instead: poems hide. In the… Across
- I want to be famous in the way a pulley is famous, or a buttonhole, not because it did anything spectacular, but because it never… Anything Spectacular
- I want to be someone making music/with my coming. Coming
- A boy told me if he roller-skated fast enough his loneliness couldn't catch up to him, the best reason I ever heard for trying to… Azaleas
- you will never catch up. Walk around feeling like a leaf know you could tumble at any second. Then decide what to do with your… Any
- Being good felt like a heavy coat, so I took it off. Coat
- I Still Have Everything You Gave Me It is dusty on the edges. It is slightly rotten. I guard it without thinking. I focus on… Ache