"Anyone who says,“Here’s my address, write me a poem,”deserves something in reply.So I’ll tell you a secret instead: poems hide.In the bottoms of our shoes, they are sleeping.They are the shadows drifting across our ceilings the moment before we wake up. What we have to do is live in a way that lets us find them."
— Naomi Shihab Nye

"I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else's story, the delicious ache of a last page."
— Naomi Shihab Nye

"I want to be famous in the way a pulley is famous,
or a buttonhole, not because it did anything spectacular,
but because it never forgot what it could do.
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— Naomi Shihab Nye