Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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I have more questions than answers in this world as do most poets and writers. The field of memory we exist in is absolutely encompassing and is both a question and answer. It is memory that provides the heart with impetus, fuels the brain, and propels the corn plant from seed to fruit.

Joy Harjo's Popular Quotes

Remember that you are all people and that all people are you.

- Joy Harjo

At least I've had to come to that in my life, to realize that this stuff called failure, this stuff, this debris of historical trauma, family trauma,…

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Remember the plants, trees, animal life who all have their families, their histories too. Talk to them, listen to them. They are alive poems.

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True power does not amass through the pain and suffering of others.

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I can hear the sizzle of newborn stars, and know anything of meaning, of the ﬁerce magic emerging here. I am witness to ﬂexible eternity, the evolvin…

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If you do not answer the noise and urgency of your gifts, they will turn on you. Or drag you down with their immense sadness at being abandoned.

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I've always had a theory that some of us are born with nerve endings longer than our bodies

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My generation is now the door to memory. That is why I am remembering.

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There is no poetry where there are no mistakes.

- Joy Harjo