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Joy Harjo
Joy Harjo
American Poet
Born: May 9, 1951
Life Me People Soul Think You
Related authors: Edgar Allan Poe Emily Dickinson Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Maya Angelou Ralph Waldo Emerson Robert Frost T. S. Eliot Walt Whitman
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. Joy Harjo
You Soul Yourself Clouds Think Others Else Everyone Everyone Else Say Poetry Had Most Also Learn Importantly Began Begin Stones Listen Which Then Us Here
I believe in the sun. In the tangle of human failures of fear, greed and forgetfulness, the sun gives me clarity. Joy Harjo
Me Fear Greed Believe Sun Clarity Gives Failures Tangle Forgetfulness Human
I don't like this romanticization of Indian people in which Indian people are looked at as spiritual saviors, as people who have always taken care of the land. We're human beings. But I think different cultures have developed different aspects of humanness. Joy Harjo
Spiritual People Care Think Indian Indian People Developed Taken Like Looked Always Cultures Human Different Human Beings Which Different Cultures Land Aspects Who Beings Humanness
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. Joy Harjo
Music Me Creative World Amazing Old Will Out Something Poetry Amazes Process Whether Which Forth Create Act Creative Act Bring Bringing
The homeland affects you directly: it affects your body; it affects the collective mind and the collective heart and the collective spirit. Joy Harjo
You Heart Mind Collective Spirit Directly Affects Body Your Your Body Homeland
My ancestors include Monahwee, who was one of the leaders in the Red Stick War, which was the largest Indian uprising in history, and Osceola, who refused to sign a treaty with the United States. Joy Harjo
War History States Ancestors Sign Indian Leaders Red Stick Uprising Refused Which Who Include United United States Largest Treaty
When explorers first encountered my people, they called us heathens, sun worshippers. They didn't understand that the sun is a relative and illuminates our path on this earth. Joy Harjo
People Path First Our Relative Earth Sun Understand Encountered Us Explorers Illuminates
I am a member of the Muskogee people. I'm a poet, a musician, a dreamer of sorts, a questioner. Like everyone else, I'm looking for answers of some sort or the other. Joy Harjo
People Poet Looking Other Else Everyone Everyone Else Musician Member Dreamer Some Like Sort Am Answers
Most people don't know that Congo Square was originally a Muscogee ceremonial ground... in New Orleans, the birthplace of jazz. Joy Harjo
People Jazz Birthplace New Know Most New Orleans Square Ceremonial Congo Ground Originally Orleans
I chose poetry. Actually, poetry chose me. Joy Harjo
Me Poetry Chose Actually
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
Life Work My Life Young Spent Dream About Most Always Southwest Influenced Loved Used Certainly Desert

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