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Naomi Shihab Nye Quotes

The hands are churches that worship the world Picture Quote #1

Why are we so monumentally slow Picture Quote #1

Read, Read, and then Read some more. Always Read. Find the voices that speak most to YOU. This is your pleasure and blessing, as well as responsibility! Picture Quote #1

I’m not interested in who suffered the most. I’m interested in people getting over it Picture Quote #1

I do think that all of us think in poems Picture Quote #1

My father was very disappointed by war and fighting. And he thought language could help us out of cycles of revenge and animosity. And so, as a journalist, he always found himself asking lots of questions and trying to gather information. He was always very clear to underscore the fact that Jewish people and Arab people were brother and sister Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

I grew up in St. Louis in a tiny house full of large music - Mahalia Jackson and Marian Anderson singing majestically on the stereo, my German-American mother fingering ‘The Lost Chord’ on the piano as golden light sank through trees, my Palestinian father trilling in Arabic in the shower each dawn Picture Quote #1

During the Gulf War, I remember two little third grade girls saying to me - after I read them some poems by writers in Iraq - ‘You know, we never thought about there being children in Iraq before.’ And I thought, ‘Well those poems did their job, because now they’ll think about everything a little bit differently.’ Picture Quote #1

Being alive is a common road. It’s what we notice makes us different Picture Quote #1

I think the job of writing and literature is to encourage each one of us to believe that we’re living in a story Picture Quote #1

The writing of Kathleen McGookey shines more brightly than most fine things we feel pleasure to read. Celebrate it! Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

We start out as little bits of disconnected dust Picture Quote #1

This is the world I want to live in. The shared world Picture Quote #1

Energy is everything. Rubbing happy and sad together creates energy Picture Quote #1

I support all people on earth who have bodies like and unlike my body Picture Quote #1

Being alive is a common road. It’s what we notice makes us different Picture Quote #1

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I say yes when I mean no and the wrinkle grows Picture Quote #1

Maybe when your mother died young, you became instantly old Picture Quote #1

It was terrible when a single conversation with someone determined your whole future relationship Picture Quote #1

I want to be famous in the way a pulley is famous, or a buttonhole, not because it did anything spectacular, but because it never forgot what it could do Picture Quote #1

I want to be someone making music/with my coming Picture Quote #1

Being good felt like a heavy coat, so I took it off Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

I think the job of writing and literature is to encourage each one of us to believe that we’re living in a story Picture Quote #1

I keep thinking, we teach children to use language to solve their disputes. We teach them not to hit and fight and bite. Then look what adults do! Picture Quote #1

... the real heroes of race and culture would always be the people who stepped out of their own line to make a larger circle Picture Quote #1

When allowed to return to the class, your feelings of humility and lonesomeness will render you a much finer student and person Picture Quote #1

Our limbs which had already traveled far beyond her world, carrying the click of distances in the smooth, untroubled soles of their shoes Picture Quote #1

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The hands are churches that worship the world (Naomi Shihab Nye Quotes) Why are we so monumentally slow (Naomi Shihab Nye Quotes) Read, Read, and then Read some more. Always Read. Find the voices that speak most to YOU. This is your pleasure and blessing, as well as responsibility! (Naomi Shihab Nye Quotes) I’m not interested in who suffered the most. I’m interested in people getting over it. (Naomi Shihab Nye Quotes) I do think that all of us think in poems (Naomi Shihab Nye Quotes) My father was very disappointed by war and fighting. And he thought language could help us out of cycles of revenge and animosity. And so, as a journalist, he always found himself asking lots of questions and trying to gather information. He was always very clear to underscore the fact that Jewish people and Arab people were brother and sister (Naomi Shihab Nye Quotes) 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 (Naomi Shihab Nye Quotes) I grew up in St. Louis in a tiny house full of large music - Mahalia Jackson and Marian Anderson singing majestically on the stereo, my German-American mother fingering ‘The Lost Chord’ on the piano as golden light sank through trees, my Palestinian father trilling in Arabic in the shower each dawn (Naomi Shihab Nye Quotes) During the Gulf War, I remember two little third grade girls saying to me - after I read them some poems by writers in Iraq - ‘You know, we never thought about there being children in Iraq before.’ And I thought, ‘Well those poems did their job, because now they’ll think about everything a little bit differently.’ (Naomi Shihab Nye Quotes) Being alive is a common road. It’s what we notice makes us different. (Naomi Shihab Nye Quotes) I think the job of writing and literature is to encourage each one of us to believe that we’re living in a story. (Naomi Shihab Nye Quotes) The writing of Kathleen McGookey shines more brightly than most fine things we feel pleasure to read. Celebrate it! (Naomi Shihab Nye Quotes) 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. (Naomi Shihab Nye Quotes) We start out as little bits of disconnected dust (Naomi Shihab Nye Quotes) This is the world I want to live in. The shared world (Naomi Shihab Nye Quotes) Energy is everything. Rubbing happy and sad together creates energy (Naomi Shihab Nye Quotes) I support all people on earth who have bodies like and unlike my body (Naomi Shihab Nye Quotes) Being alive is a common road. It’s what we notice makes us different (Naomi Shihab Nye Quotes) I say yes when I mean no and the wrinkle grows (Naomi Shihab Nye Quotes) Maybe when your mother died young, you became instantly old (Naomi Shihab Nye Quotes) It was terrible when a single conversation with someone determined your whole future relationship (Naomi Shihab Nye Quotes) I want to be famous in the way a pulley is famous, or a buttonhole, not because it did anything spectacular, but because it never forgot what it could do (Naomi Shihab Nye Quotes) I want to be someone making music/with my coming (Naomi Shihab Nye Quotes) Being good felt like a heavy coat, so I took it off (Naomi Shihab Nye Quotes) 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 Quotes) I think the job of writing and literature is to encourage each one of us to believe that we’re living in a story (Naomi Shihab Nye Quotes) I keep thinking, we teach children to use language to solve their disputes. We teach them not to hit and fight and bite. Then look what adults do! (Naomi Shihab Nye Quotes) ... the real heroes of race and culture would always be the people who stepped out of their own line to make a larger circle (Naomi Shihab Nye Quotes) When allowed to return to the class, your feelings of humility and lonesomeness will render you a much finer student and person (Naomi Shihab Nye Quotes) Our limbs which had already traveled far beyond her world, carrying the click of distances in the smooth, untroubled soles of their shoes (Naomi Shihab Nye Quotes)

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