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Quotes from Conversations with the World by Phebe Davidson — Naomi Shihab Nye

born 1952 United States

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Jerusalem is so permeated with layers and textures, minglings of all kinds that, once you've lived there you don't get over it.

Conversations with the World by Phebe Davidson (1998)

The person who's vanished is the one you really think about.

Conversations with the World by Phebe Davidson (1998)

Especially when you write, I think, you become cognizant of the little threads carrying us along everywhere, tying us together and linking us up.

Conversations with the World by Phebe Davidson (1998)

I've always felt there was a song right around us all the time. When people are missing that, they need to wake up. They need to find their poetry where they are.

Conversations with the World by Phebe Davidson (1998)

details have always been the doorway by which we approach and apprehend the larger things of the world, the larger truths, whatever they might be.

Conversations with the World by Phebe Davidson (1998)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Naomi Shihab Nye (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.