"I believe that poets have to be inside their poems somewhere, or the poem won't work."

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Source : Joy Harjo, Laura Coltelli (1996). “The spiral of memory: interviews”, Univ of Michigan Pr

Joy Harjo

#Believe Quotes #Poetry Quotes #I Believe Quotes

“Love is to the heart what the summer is to the farmer's year. It brings to harvest all the loveliest flowers of the soul.”
“Skepticism can keep us from blessing, can keep us trapped in two minds.”
“People don't want to hear the truth, they never do. They wanna live in some kind of fantasy. And then when they get caught up in it, they start being in denial because they don't want to be wrong.”
“Happiness is the most natural thing in the world when you have it, and the slowest, strangest, most impossible thing when you don't. It's like learning a foreign language: You can think about the words all you want, but you'll never be able to speak it until you suck up your courage and say them out loud.”

Source : Dan Wells (2014). “Partials series 1-3 (Partials; Fragments; Ruins) (Partials)”, p.58, HarperCollins UK
“Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.”

Source : Henry Fielding (1824). “The Works of Henry Fielding, with a Life of the Author: Plays”, p.199
“The only positive benefit of the injury to Flintoff may be the end of his captaincy ambitions”
“I love to dance in the disco, but that's about it.”
“[D]id you really expect fairness on the environmental issue? For a swathe of reporters, this is not a matter of empirical reporting; it's a matter of faith. Bush cannot be pro-environment because he's Bush.”

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