Author: Joy Harjo

Quotes

When you play a sax, that saxophone is irreverent. It's noisy; it's a trickster... you cannot hide the saxophone in your hands, so it's a good teacher.

When you play a sax, that saxophone is irreverent. It's noisy; it's a trickster... you cannot hide the saxophone in your hands, so it's a good teacher.

- Joy Harjo

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.

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.

- Joy Harjo

I've always loved the desert. I've spent most of my life in the Southwest. It's certainly influenced my work. I used to dream about it when I was young.

I've always loved the desert. I've spent most of my life in the Southwest. It's certainly influenced my work. I used to dream about it when I was young.

- Joy Harjo

I never fit in. Everyone knew my dad was Indian. I was half-Indian.

I never fit in. Everyone knew my dad was Indian. I was half-Indian.

- Joy Harjo

I've been present at birth, and death is just as present and in equal balance. And I've been present at death, and birth is just as present, again in equal balance.

I've been present at birth, and death is just as present and in equal balance. And I've been present at death, and birth is just as present, again in equal balance.

- Joy Harjo

My mother wrote lyrics and sang but was overtaken by life with four children and worked.

My mother wrote lyrics and sang but was overtaken by life with four children and worked.

- Joy Harjo

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.

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

You can't look for love, or it will run away from you. But, you know, don't look for it. Don't look for it. Just go where it is and appreciate it, and, you know, it will find you.

You can't look for love, or it will run away from you. But, you know, don't look for it. Don't look for it. Just go where it is and appreciate it, and, you know, it will find you.

- Joy Harjo

I believe in the sun. In the tangle of human failures of fear, greed and forgetfulness, the sun gives me clarity.

I believe in the sun. In the tangle of human failures of fear, greed and forgetfulness, the sun gives me clarity.

- Joy Harjo

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