“Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside,
you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.”
More from Naomi Shihab Nye
“So much of any year is flammable, lists of vegetables, partial poems. Orange swirling…”
“My father’s hopes travel with me years after he died. Someday we will learn how to live.…”
“How do we continue all these days?”
“I do and don’t love you— isn't that happiness?”