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I support all people on earth who have bodies like and unlike my body.

Naomi Shihab Nye

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Naomi Shihab Nye
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 12
Poet
Teacher
University Teacher
Writer
St. Louis
Missouri
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Earth
Body
Like
People
Unlike
Bodies

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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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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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our limbs which had already traveled far beyond her world, carrying the click of distances in the smooth, untroubled soles of their shoes.
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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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It was terrible when a single conversation with someone determined your whole future relationship.
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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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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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There is a place to stand where you can see so many lights you forget you are one of them.
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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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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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A poem is a cup of words open to the sky and wind in a bucket.
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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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Being good felt like a heavy coat, so I took it off.
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The hands are churches that worship the world.
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Teaching and writing are separate, but serve/feed one another in so many ways. Writing travels the road inward, teaching, the road out - helping OTHERS move inward - it is an honor to be with others in the spirit of writing and encouragement.
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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 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.
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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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This is the world I want to live in. The shared world.
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The thousands small birds of January in their smooth soaring cloud finding the trees.
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