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....

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

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

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

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.

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

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....