I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else's story, the delicious ache of a last page.
Interpretation
Reading provides a unique escape and connection to others' experiences and emotions.
In this quote, Naomi Shihab Nye expresses her appreciation for reading as a reflective and solitary activity. The solitude allows for an introspective journey into the lives and stories of others, creating a profound emotional connection that lingers, particularly emphasized by the bittersweet feeling that accompanies finishing a good book.
In practice
During a book club meeting, to emphasize the joy of reading.
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.
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
A boy told me if he roller-skated fast enough his loneliness couldn't catch up to him, the best reason I ever heard for trying to be a champion. What I wonder tonight pedaling hard down King William Street is if it translates to bicycles. A victory! To leave your loneliness panting behind you on some street corner while you float free into a cloud of sudden azaleas, pink petals that have never felt loneliness, no matter how slowly they fell.
I think whenever you love something or somebody it means that you have to extend yourself, you have to grow - get a little larger. You can't stay in your little comfortable - spot.
As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.
I support all people on earth who have bodies like and unlike my body.
Children are not yet fools, but we shall turn them into imbeciles like ourselves, with high I.Q.'s if possible.
There's a richness that reading gives you, an opportunity to probe more than any other medium I know of. Reading is about not being content with the surface.
I imagine that one of the biggest troubles with colleges is there are too many distractions, too much panty-raiding, fraternities, and boola-boola and all of that.
The methodologies of examining hip hop are borrowed from sociology, politics, religion, economics, urban studies, journalism, communications theory, American studies, transatlantic studies, black studies, history, musicology, comparative literature, English, linguistics, and other disciplines.
Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.
With the changing economy, no one has lifetime employment. But community colleges provide lifetime employability.
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