I think the job of writing and literature is to encourage each one of us to believe that we're living in a story.
Naomi Shihab NyeThe writing of Kathleen McGookey shines more brightly than most fine things we feel pleasure to read. Celebrate it!
Naomi Shihab NyeMy mother used to tell me when I went somewhere, "Please leave your foolishness at home." But how could I do that? It was stuck on me.
Naomi Shihab NyeAs a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.
Naomi Shihab Nye