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
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.
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.
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!
want
I want to be someone making music/with my coming.
lap trouble storyteller
We dropped our troubles into the lap of the storyteller, and they turned into someone else's.
stronger flaws shock
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
clouds bird tree
The thousands small birds of January in their smooth soaring cloud finding the trees.
world want
This is the world I want to live in. The shared world.
brother revenge war
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.
views people world
What did exclusivity ever have to offer but a distorted, unrealistic view of the world? People who stuck only to their own kind were scared people.
hurricanes sometimes save-me
Because sometimes I live in a hurricane of words and not one of them can save me.