Quotes from Voices in the Air: Poems for Listeners — Naomi Shihab Nye
born 1952 United States
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Facts interest me less than the trailing smoke of stories.
Voices in the Air: Poems for Listeners (2018)
If one of your people
equals hundreds of ours,
what does that say about people?
Voices in the Air: Poems for Listeners (2018)
Politics is simply the way human beings treat
one another on the earth.
Voices in the Air: Poems for Listeners (2018)
What makes a man with a gun seem bigger
than a man with almonds?
Voices in the Air: Poems for Listeners (2018)
In your dream no one is a refugee.
Everyone has clean sheets.
Voices in the Air: Poems for Listeners (2018)
all poems belong to anyone who loves them.
Voices in the Air: Poems for Listeners (2018)
Voices in the Air: Poems for Listeners (2018)
the world cannot stay narrow anymore. We are
building bridges among religions
Voices in the Air: Poems for Listeners (2018)
Voices in the Air: Poems for Listeners (2018)
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Naomi Shihab Nye (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.