“A boy told me if he roller-skated fast enough his loneliness couldn't catch up to him, the best reason I ever heard for trying to be a champion. What I wonder tonight pedaling hard down King William Street is if it translates to bicycles. A victory! To leave your loneliness panting behind you on some street corner while you float free into a cloud of sudden azaleas, pink petals that have never felt loneliness, no matter how slowly they fell.” IfsTryingMatterHardReasonEnoughFeltBehindsWonderBoysHeardStreetsLonelinessKingsVictoryCloudsCornersChampionTonightTranslateFloatsBicycleBehind YouPetalsStreet CornersAzaleas Book:Fuel: Poems Source: Fuel: Poems
“It is really hard to be lonely very long in a world of words. Even if you don't have friends somewhere, you still have language, and it will find you and wrap its little syllables around you and suddenly there will be a story to live in.” IfsWorldLittlesLongStillsHardStoriesLanguageLonelyWrapsSyllables Book:I'll Ask You Three Times, Are You OK?: Tales of Driving and Being Driven Source: I'll Ask You Three Times, Are You OK?: Tales of Driving and Being Driven
“maybe we try too hard to be remembered, waking to the glowing yellow disc in ignorance, swearing that today will be the day, today we will make something of our lives. what if we are so busy searching for worth that we miss the sapphire sky and cackling blackbird. what else is missing? maybe our steps are too straight and our paths too narrow and not overlapping. maybe when they overlap someone in another country lights a candle, a couple resolves their argument, a young man puts down his silver gun and walks away.” IfsMenTryingCountryHardLightTodayYoungWalksStepsPathOur LivesSkyMissingIgnoranceCoupleGunArgumentBusyRememberedYoung ManSilverWhat IfResolveWakingYellowCandleGlowingSwearingDiscsOverlappingBlackbirdsSapphires Author:Naomi Shihab Nye
“You know, those of us who leave our homes in the morning and expect to find them there when we go back - it's hard for us to understand what the experience of a refugee might be like.” KnowsHardHomeMightMorningRefugee Author:Naomi Shihab Nye
