Poets are regular people who live down the block and do simple things like wash clothes and stir soup.
—Naomi Shihab Nye, American poet (b. 1952)
If everybody became a poet the world would be much better. We would all read each other.
—Nikki Giovanni, American poet (b. 1943)
(Photo by Leslie: Echinacea, or cone flower)
“Poems hide in the bottoms of our shoes; they are sleeping. They are the shadows drifting across our ceilings the moment before we wake up. What we have to do is live in a way that lets us find them.”
– Naomi Shihab Nye, American poet (b. 1952)
And isn’t this just as true of the stories we fiction writers tell?
“Poems hide in the bottoms of our shoes; they are sleeping. They are the shadows drifting across our ceilings the moment before we wake up. What we have to do is live in a way that lets us find them.”
– Naomi Shihab Nye, American poet (b. 1952)