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Quotes from Everything Comes Next: Collected and New Poems — Naomi Shihab Nye

born 1952 United States

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Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside,
you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.

Everything Comes Next: Collected and New Poems (2020)

Light taking forever to get here,
more precious when it arrives.

Everything Comes Next: Collected and New Poems (2020)

Don't we all need someone to greet us
to make us feel we're here?

Everything Comes Next: Collected and New Poems (2020)

Walk around feeling like a leaf.
Know you could tumble any second.
Then decide what to do with your time.

Everything Comes Next: Collected and New Poems (2020)

Hope makes itself every day
springs up from the tiniest places

Everything Comes Next: Collected and New Poems (2020)

What this town has not given her
the book will provide: a sheep,
a wilderness of new solutions

Everything Comes Next: Collected and New Poems (2020)

On earth, the door still swings wide open.
We live in a new thought.

Everything Comes Next: Collected and New Poems (2020)

[A]n onion falls apart on the chopping block,
a history revealed

Everything Comes Next: Collected and New Poems (2020)

Attribution

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