Joy Harjo Quotes

I could hear my abandoned dreams making a racket in my soul.

I wanted to see everything. It was around the time I acquired language, or even before that time, wh...

I walk in and out of several worlds every day.

A panther poised in the cypress tree about to jump is apanther poised in a cypress tree about to jum...

All acts of kindness are lights in the war for justice.

Bless the poets, the workers for justice, the dancers of ceremony, the singers of heartache, the vis...

I don't see the desert as barren at all; I see it as full and ripe. It doesn't need to be flattered ...

There is no poetry where there are no mistakes.

The creative act amazes me. Whether it's poetry, whether it's music, it's an amazing process, and it...

When you play a sax, that saxophone is irreverent. It's noisy; it's a trickster... you cannot hide t...

Remember that you are all people and that all people are you.

To pray you open your whole selfTo sky, to earth, to sun, to moonTo one whole voice that is youAnd k...

She had horses who were the blue air of the sky.