120 Quotes by Naomi Shihab Nye

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.

... the real heroes of race and culture would always be the people who stepped out of their own line to make a larger circle.

There is a place to stand where you can see so many lights you forget you are one of them.

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

It was terrible when a single conversation with someone determined your whole future relationship.

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

Poetry, the most intimate form of expression, gives us a deeper sense of reality than headlines and news stories ever could.

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

Only in words on a page can it still be yesterday.