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
stars blue orange
Let me peer out at the world through your lens. (Maybe I'll shudder, or gasp, or tilt my head in a question.) Let me see how your blue is my turquoise and my orange is your gold. Suddenly binary stars, we have startling gravity. Let's compare scintillation - let's share starlight.
dream hands fire
Later our dreams begin catching fire around the edges, they burn like paper, we wake with our hands full of ash.
bed
Getting over what you did to me is not why I get out of bed anymore.
love-you writing thinking
I'm writing mostly to thank you for living you eighty years and to tell you I love you and think of you often.
encouragement moving teaching
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.
different alive common
Being alive is a common road. It's what we notice makes us different.
energy mystery felt
Mystery: Everything felt better before you got there than when you actually got there. When you actually got there, you didn't quite have the energy to be there.
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.
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.
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.
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.
hands church world
The hands are churches that worship the world.
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.