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Naomi Shihab Nye — “Before You Know Kindness As the Deepest Thing Inside...”

On Being with Krista Tippett

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Putting Words on the Page

i interviewed mary oliver last year, and she described the poem wild geese not as a voice coming to her, but basically as something that was just given. She always carries a notebook, right to me. That's one of her trade marks. You have to write things down as they can't tri so i've started hearing a notebook again after twenty years. I think that's greatdand you can carry one at any age tat you're never too old to tart carrye. And that poem is so important allo my kindness. It's o poem that's sy lives.

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