"Poetry [is] more necessary than ever as a……" — Naomi Shihab Nye
"Poetry [is] more necessary than ever as a fire to light our tongues."
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49 Quotes by Naomi Shihab Nye
Naomi Shihab Nye has 49 quotes on this site.
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Maybe when your mother died young, you became instantly old.
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I have always loved the gaps, the spaces between things, as much as the things. I love staring, pondering, mulling,…
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Sometimes there’s no one to listen to what you really might like to say at a certain moment. The paper…
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Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.
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Being alive is a common road. It's what we notice makes us different.
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Read, Read, and then Read some more. Always Read. Find the voices that speak most to YOU. This is your…
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Teaching and writing are separate, but serve/feed one another in so many ways. Writing travels the road inward, teaching, the…
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Poetry calls us to pause. There is so much we overlook, while the abundance around us continues to shimmer, on…
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You know, those of us who leave our homes in the morning and expect to find them there when we…
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I support all people on earth who have bodies like and unlike my body...
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Energy is everything. Rubbing happy and sad together creates energy.
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For you who came so far; for you who held out, wearing a black scarf to signify grief; for you…
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Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you…
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The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl.
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Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.
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