Naomi Shihab Nye Quotes About Heart

Quotes about: Heart

• 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.

  Naomi Shihab Nye

  Heart, Soul, Mind

  Naomi Shihab Nye (1995). “Words under the words: selected poems”, The Eighth Mountain Press

• 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

  Dream, Memories, Grief

• 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

  Heart, Moon, Mirrors

  Naomi Shihab Nye (1994). “Red Suitcase: Poems”, p.41, BOA Editions, Ltd.

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