Poetry Quote by Naomi Shihab Nye

“No test can measure anything important.   On”

— 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

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

“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

“rounded shoulders, the shoulders of women no one has touched for a long time. Men”

— Naomi Shihab Nye

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

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

“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

“Grief is an ambush. You’re walking along feeling fine, look down, see a leaf, and begin to weep. —Jack”

— Naomi Shihab Nye

“Every day is a poetry day.”

— Naomi Shihab Nye

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

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