“Can we tell ourselves when we need to walk away from chatter, turn it off entirely for half a day, or a full day, or a whole weekend, ease into a realm of something slower, but more tangible? 

Can we go outside and listen?"

~ Naomi Shihab Nye

"After you read a poem just knowing you can hold it, you can be in that space of the poem. And it can hold you in its space."

~ Naomi Shihab Nye

"Poetry helps us imagine one another's lives."

~ Naomi Shihab Nye

There’s a place in my brain
where hate won’t grow.

~ Naomi Shihab Nye