Catching the Light
Joy Harjo
Top 10 Best Quotes
“The most powerful poetry is birthed through cracks in history, through what is broken and unseen.”
“My path is made of poetry and music, characterized by rowdiness and sunflowers, and given life by everyone I have met along the way in this process of becoming human. (When I say "everyone," I don't mean just us ornery two-legged beings.)”
“Eventually, we all make it home, and we each make an individual path by any means.”
“When the world as as knew it ended, we stood up again in the ruin, and found a way to keep walking through tears.”
“When she broke on Earth, the light in her was not broken. We cannot break light, nor can we destroy it.”
“When a despot ineptly sought to turn a country to a totalitarian nightmare, where was poetry? It wasn't sleeping. It kept the poets up at night. We wrote against despair toward beauty, toward a truth that could imprison us for making liars out of the fools deposited in the seats of power, kept there by puppets who kneeled in piles of promissory notes.”
“We must take care to feed the minds, hearts, and spirits of those coming up behind us--to offer songs, poems, and stories that will break open that which is hardened, expose that which is evil-minded or would harm, and remind us how we are constructed to bring forth beauty of thought and beingness.”
“Through her eyes I came to see that all is spiritual and we either move about respectfully within it, or we are lost.”
“The traditional ways and rituals of all of Earth's peoples are kept in containers of poetry, song, and story. It is how we know who we are, where we are coming from and who we are becoming.”
“That was struggle enough; however, there was another plane of consciousness on which I was fighting every night that I lay down to rest. As I slid into the borderlands between waking and sleeping, negative beings attempted to pull me into their darkness. I learned to escape them by using words to make a ladder to bring me back.”
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