"Bless the poets, the workers for justice, the dancers of ceremony, the singers of heartache, the visionaries, all makers and carriers of fresh meaning—We will all make it through, despite politics and..."
- Joy Harjo
"There is no poetry where there are no mistakes."
"To pray you open your whole selfTo sky, to earth, to sun, to moonTo one whole voice that is youAnd know there is moreThat you can't see, can't hearCan't know except in momentsSteadly growing, and in l..."
"A panther poised in the cypress tree about to jump is apanther poised in a cypress tree about to jump.The panther is a poem of fire green eyes and a heart chargedby four winds of four directions.The p..."
"I wanted to see everything. It was around the time I acquired language, or even before that time, when something happened that changed my relationship to the spin of the world. My concept of language,..."
"She had horses who were the blue air of the sky."
"I walk in and out of several worlds every day."
"All acts of kindness are lights in the war for justice."
"I could hear my abandoned dreams making a racket in my soul."
"Remember that you are all people and that all people are you."