Quotes by : Joy Harjo

There is no poetry where there are no mistakes.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I walk in and out of several worlds every day.

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

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