Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth. Naomi Shihab Nye More Quotes by Naomi Shihab Nye More Quotes From Naomi Shihab Nye I want to be someone making music/with my coming. Naomi Shihab Nye want For you who came so far; for you who held out, wearing a black scarf to signify grief; for you who believe true love can find you amidst this atlas of tears linking one town to its own memory of mortar, when it was still a dream to be built and people moved there, believing, and someone with sky and birds in his heart said this would be a good place for a park. Naomi Shihab Nye grief dream memories I grew up in St. Louis in a tiny house full of large music - Mahalia Jackson and Marian Anderson singing majestically on the stereo, my German-American mother fingering 'The Lost Chord' on the piano as golden light sank through trees, my Palestinian father trilling in Arabic in the shower each dawn. Naomi Shihab Nye piano mother father We all find ourselves involved in projects or activities that confound us-when or why did I say I would do this? What was I thinking? I needed a poem for myself that said-pause longer. Think again. Naomi Shihab Nye projects said thinking I think the job of writing and literature is to encourage each one of us to believe that we're living in a story. Naomi Shihab Nye writing jobs believe We start out as little bits of disconnected dust. Naomi Shihab Nye disconnected dust littles We dropped our troubles into the lap of the storyteller, and they turned into someone else's. Naomi Shihab Nye storyteller lap trouble our limbs which had already traveled far beyond her world, carrying the click of distances in the smooth, untroubled soles of their shoes. Naomi Shihab Nye shoes distance world 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. Naomi Shihab Nye grow yourself you love
