“I think our frenzied days are hungry for the kind of quietude poetry offers.”— Naomi Shihab Nye, Introduction to Salting the Ocean: 100 Poems by Young Poets, 2000Share
“Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.”— Naomi Shihab NyeShare
“Writers, believers in words, could not give up words when the going got rough.”— Naomi Shihab NyeShare
“Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to an humble and grateful mind.”— EpictetusShare
“Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.”— AristotleShare
