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Naomi Shihab Nye
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Naomi Shihab Nye
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 12
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University Teacher
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St. Louis
Missouri
Coming
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Because sometimes I live in a hurricane of words and not one of them can save me.
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The hands are churches that worship the world.
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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 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.
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Later our dreams begin catching fire around the edges, they burn like paper, we wake with our hands full of ash.
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Peter Conners stunning prose poems are packed with keen sensitivity, dreaminess, and wit. I love his time travels, the vibrant layering of image and detail. Try taking walks as you are reading this book- the dazzle of landscapes, inner and outer, feel replenished and rich. This is language and vision I want to come home to again and again.
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I do think that all of us think in poems.
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... the real heroes of race and culture would always be the people who stepped out of their own line to make a larger circle.
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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!
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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.
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I'm writing mostly to thank you for living you eighty years and to tell you I love you and think of you often.
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We start out as little bits of disconnected dust.
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I'm not interested in who suffered the most. I'm interested in people getting over it.
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It was terrible when a single conversation with someone determined your whole future relationship.
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I think the job of writing and literature is to encourage each one of us to believe that we're living in a story.
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Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth.
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If someday, in a morning, you see you, in a mirror or the dent of a spoon, and wonder Where is my soul and Where has it gone, remember this: Catch the gaze of a woman on the metro, subway, tram. Look at a man. Seek and you will find you in the silvered space, a flash between souls.
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I support all people on earth who have bodies like and unlike my body.
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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
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Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.
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The thousands small birds of January in their smooth soaring cloud finding the trees.
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