Poetry Quote by Naomi Shihab Nye — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Maybe if we re-invent whatever our lives give us we find poems.”

“Apparently people commonly died when their loved ones were out of the room. Bathroom break. Quick trip down to the cafeteria for a grilled cheese. It was easier to die if you didn't have family members to worry about at that exact moment.”

“I'm like the weather, never really can predict when this rain cloud's gonna burst; when it's the high or it's the low, when you might need a light jacket.”

“Anyone who says, “Here’s my address,”

“you will never catch up.”

“Kindness”

“الصبيةُ الذين افترشوا طفولتي”

“Whenever you keep score in love, you lose.”

“I told you in the course of this paper that Shakespeare had a sister; but do not look for her in”

“Fear of joy is the darkest of captivities.”

“My brother once showed me a piece of quartz that contained, he said, some trapped water older than all the seas in our world. He held it up to my ear. ‘Listen,’ he said, ‘life and no escape.”

“sometimes when everything seems at”