The person who's vanished is the one you really think about. - Naomi Shihab Nye

I keep thinking, we teach children to use language to solve their disputes. We teach them not to hit and fight and bite. Then look what adults do!

if you read the poems of someone somewhere you know a lot more about that country than you know if you just study its crops or weather conditions.

"You will need to be brave. There are hard days coming. There are hard words waiting in people’s mouths to be spoken. There are walls. You can’t break them. Just find doors in them." (p258)