Joy Harjo

How We Became Human

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  • minnahas quoted2 months ago
    The poet cannot be separated from place. Even placelessness becomes a place.
  • minnahas quoted2 months ago
    Poetry was not under the ownership or province of Europe or New England, though it often appeared otherwise. Something was born in that realization, given life.
  • minnahas quoted2 months ago
    Or now that the world is neither flat nor round but in the shape of a spiral, the shape of the mind of God.
  • minnahas quoted2 months ago
    in a land that had been taken from us—a land no one could own.
  • minnahas quoted2 months ago
    Half of her soul was enmeshed in the internal battle of what am I in this place of loss and heartbreak? How do I bear the weight of my soul?
  • minnahas quoted2 months ago
    his poetry taught me that becoming human was the most honorable task of poetry
  • minnahas quoted2 months ago
    myth as an archetypal reality, not as falsehood
  • minnahas quoted2 months ago
    Here is where poetry showed up, at this intersection of a glimmer of self-knowledge and the need to make art of whatever materials are at hand
  • minnahas quoted2 months ago
    Always my art took place in private places, in the dark, far from public view. Even then, it was what I wanted to do with my life, “to be an artist,” I always answered.
  • Елена Захарьеваhas quotedlast year
    There is no poetry where there are no mistakes, said the next messenger. I
    am a human being, I said.
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