Words Under the Words: Selected Poems (A Far Corner Book)

Naomi Shihab Nye

“Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside,

you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.”

Naomi Shihab Nye tells the remarkable real-life story that inspired her beloved poem “Kindness,” an ode to kindness over fear:

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