Best quotes by Joy Harjo on Poetry
Checkout quotes by Joy Harjo on Poetry
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‟ When I began to listen to poetry, it's when I began to listen to the stones, and I began to listen to what the clouds had to say, and I began to listen to others. And I think, most importantly for all of us, then you begin to learn to listen to the soul, the soul of yourself in here, which is also the soul of everyone else.
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‟ I chose poetry. Actually, poetry chose me.
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‟ You just go where poetry is, whether it's in your heart or your mind or in books or in places where there's live poetry or recordings.
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‟ The creative act amazes me. Whether it's poetry, whether it's music, it's an amazing process, and it has something to do with bringing forth the old out into the world to create and to bring forth that which will rejuvenate.
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‟ Bottom line, I have to follow what my soul says, or my spirit. And my spirit said that poetry and the arts should be without borders, should be without political borders.
- Joy Harjo