Naomi Shihab Nye: Living

Naomi Shihab Nye is American writer. Explore interesting quotes on living.

Naomi Shihab Nye: 22 quotes 0 likes

“It is really hard to be lonely very long in a world of words. Even if you don't have friends somewhere, you still have language, and it will find you and wrap its little syllables around you and suddenly there will be a story to live in.”

Naomi Shihab Nye

Source: I'll Ask You Three Times, Are You OK?: Tales of Driving and Being Driven

World

“Where we live in the world
is never one place. Our hearts,
those dogged mirrors, keep flashing us
moons before we are ready for them.”

Naomi Shihab Nye

Source: 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East

World , Dogs , Heart

“Because sometimes I live in a hurricane of words
and not one of them can save me.”

Naomi Shihab Nye

Source: Words Under the Words: Selected Poems