As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us insi…

- Naomi Shihab Nye

Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.

- Naomi Shihab Nye

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 …

- Naomi Shihab Nye

If a teacher told me to revise, I thought that meant my writing was a broken-down car that needed to go to the repair shop. I felt insulted. I didn't…

- Naomi Shihab Nye

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 turquois…

- Naomi Shihab Nye

I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else's story, the delicious ache of a last page.

- Naomi Shihab Nye

Poetry calls us to pause. There is so much we overlook, while the abundance around us continues to shimmer, on its own.

- Naomi Shihab Nye

Being alive is a common road. It's what we notice makes us different.

- 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? We don't even know

- Naomi Shihab Nye