Naomi Shihab Nye Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else's story, the delicious ache of a last page.”
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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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“... the real heroes of race and culture would always be the people who stepped out of their own line to make a larger circle.”
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“It is really hard to be lonely very long in a world of words. Even if you don't have friends somewhere, you still have language, and it will find you and wrap its little syllables around you and suddenly there will be a story to live in.”
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“Poetry calls us to pause. There is so much we overlook, while the abundance around us continues to shimmer, on its own.”
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“The person you have known a long tme is embedded in you like a jewel. The person you have just met casts out a few glistening beams & you are fascinated to see more of them. How many more are there? With someone you've barely met the curiosity is intoxicating.”
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“There is a place to stand where you can see so many lights you forget you are one of them.”
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“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 for us to understand what the experience of a refugee might be like.”
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“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 bottoms of our shoes, they are sleeping. They are the shadows drifting across our ceilings the moment before we wake up. What we have to do is live in a way that lets us find them.”
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“only kindness that raises its head from the crowd of the world to say it is I you have been looking for, and then goes with you everywhere like a shadow or a friend.”
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“Energy is everything. Rubbing happy and sad together creates energy.”
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“I'm not interested in who suffered the most. I'm interested in people getting over it.”
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“Peter Conners stunning prose poems are packed with keen sensitivity, dreaminess, and wit. I love his time travels, the vibrant layering of image and detail. Try taking walks as you are reading this book- the dazzle of landscapes, inner and outer, feel replenished and rich. This is language and vision I want to come home to again and again.”
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“I can never see fashion models, lean angular cheeks, strutting hips and blooming hair, without thinking of the skulls at the catacombs in Lima, Peru.”
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“I support all people on earth who have bodies like and unlike my body, skins and moles and old scars, secret and public hair, crooked toes. I support those who have done nothing large.”
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“The writing of Kathleen McGookey shines more brightly than most fine things we feel pleasure to read. Celebrate it!”
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“We dropped our troubles into the lap of the storyteller, and they turned into someone else's.”
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“It was terrible when a single conversation with someone determined your whole future relationship.”
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“Later our dreams begin catching fire around the edges, they burn like paper, we wake with our hands full of ash.”
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“Where we live in the world is never one place. Our hearts, those dogged mirrors, keep flashing us moons before we are ready for them.”
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“Mystery: Everything felt better before you got there than when you actually got there. When you actually got there, you didn't quite have the energy to be there.”
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“Today you will say things you can predict and other things you could never imagine this minute. Don't reject them, let them come through when they're ready, don't think you can plan it al out. This day will never, no matter how long you live, happen again. It is exquisitely singular. It will never again be exactly repeated.”
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“Poetry [is] more necessary than ever as a fire to light our tongues.”
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“Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth.”
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“like our parents always told us not to like firefighters warn against we're playing games and making the rules up as we go we're matching warmth to warmth starting fires burning wishes into our skin we're hidden holding forbidden lights we're children whose fathers have never taught never touch but we're finding these new flames we smother at the sound of footsteps.”
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“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 it once a year when I shake it out in the wind. I do not ache. I would not trade.”
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“Being good felt like a heavy coat, so I took it off.”
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“Let me peer out at the world through your lens. (Maybe I'll shudder, or gasp, or tilt my head in a question.) Let me see how your blue is my turquoise and my orange is your gold. Suddenly binary stars, we have startling gravity. Let's compare scintillation - let's share starlight.”
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“maybe we try too hard to be remembered, waking to the glowing yellow disc in ignorance, swearing that today will be the day, today we will make something of our lives. what if we are so busy searching for worth that we miss the sapphire sky and cackling blackbird. what else is missing? maybe our steps are too straight and our paths too narrow and not overlapping. maybe when they overlap someone in another country lights a candle, a couple resolves their argument, a young man puts down his silver gun and walks away.”
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“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 time. --The Art of Disappearing”
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