• Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth.

    Naomi Shihab Nye: Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth.
    Naomi Shihab Nye (1995). “Words under the words: selected poems”, The Eighth Mountain Press