Naomi Shihab Nye
Naomi Shihab Nye
Naomi Shihab Nyeis a poet, songwriter, and novelist. She was born to a Palestinian father and an American mother. Although she calls herself a "wandering poet", she refers to San Antonio as her home. She says a visit to her grandmother in the village of Sinjil was a life-changing experience. Nye was the recipient of the 2013 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children's Literature...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth12 March 1952
CountryUnited States of America
extend love means somebody whenever
I think whenever you love something or somebody it means that you have to extend yourself, you have to grow - get a little larger. You can't stay in your little comfortable - spot.
facts stories interest
Facts interest me less than the trailing smoke of stories.
meaningful perspective poetry
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.
want
I want to be someone making music/with my coming.
jobs believe writing
I think the job of writing and literature is to encourage each one of us to believe that we're living in a story.
humility class feelings
When allowed to return to the class, your feelings of humility and lonesomeness will render you a much finer student and person.
distance shoes world
our limbs which had already traveled far beyond her world, carrying the click of distances in the smooth, untroubled soles of their shoes.
sky wind cups
A poem is a cup of words open to the sky and wind in a bucket.
writing shining pleasure
The writing of Kathleen McGookey shines more brightly than most fine things we feel pleasure to read. Celebrate it!
fashion thinking skulls
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.
compassion hair people
I support all people on earth who have bodies like and unlike my body, skins and moles and old scars, secret and public hair, crooked toes. I support those who have done nothing large.
people oppression not-interested
I'm not interested in who suffered the most. I'm interested in people getting over it.
hands church world
The hands are churches that worship the world.
bed
Getting over what you did to me is not why I get out of bed anymore.