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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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Naomi shehabna was long a self professed wandering poet. To day she's the young people's poet laureate of the poetry foundation. Her poem called kindness is held close by people around the world. Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing. You must speak to it till your voice catches the thread of all sorrows and you see the size of the cloth. Then it is only kindness that makes sense any more. Only kindness that ties your shoes and sends you out into the day to gaze at bread. The act of writing things down just helps. It can be a tool to survive in hard times or to anchor our s

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