Naomi Shihab Nye Quotes
Naomi Shihab Nye Quotes
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.
2735 Because sometimes I live in a hurricane of words
and not one of them can save me.
3141 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.
4268 Anyone who says, “Here’s my address,
write me a poem,” deserves something in reply.
So I’ll tell 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.
2111 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
2144 Poetry [is] more necessary than ever as a fire to light our tongues.
3660 We dropped our troubles into the lap of the storyteller, and they turned into someone else's.
1364 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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