Joy Harjo

How We Became Human

Notify me when the book’s added
To read this book, upload an EPUB or FB2 file to Bookmate. How do I upload a book?
  • Елена Захарьеваhas quoted2 years ago
    There is no poetry where there are no mistakes, said the next messenger. I
    am a human being, I said.
  • Елена Захарьеваhas quoted2 years ago
    I’d rather understand how to sing from a crow
    who was never good at singing or much of anything
    but finding gold in the trash of humans.

    So what are we doing here I ask the crow parading on the ledge of
    falling that hangs over this precarious city?

    Crow just laughs and says wait, wait and see and I am waiting
    and not seeing anything, not just yet.

    But like crow I collect the shine of anything beautiful I can find.
  • Елена Захарьеваhas quoted2 years ago
    There are strangers above me, below me, and all around me and
    we are all strange in this place of recent invention.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted2 years ago
    What kind of nation is this
    Deleting love from its curriculum
    The art of poetry
    The mystery of women’s eyes
    What kind of nation is this
    Battling each rain cloud . . .
    —Nizzar Kabbani
  • Елена Захарьеваhas quoted3 years ago
    the journey we make together is perfect on this earth who was once a star and made the same mistakes as humans.

    We might make them again, she said.
  • Елена Захарьеваhas quoted3 years ago
    Our forgetfulness stalks us, walks the earth behind us, leaving a trail of paper diapers, needles, and wasted blood.
  • Елена Захарьеваhas quoted3 years ago
    Keep track of the errors of our forgetfulness; the fog steals our children while we sleep.
  • Елена Захарьеваhas quoted4 years ago
    breathing
    is rooted somewhere other than the lungs.
  • Елена Захарьеваhas quoted4 years ago
    It is still smoldering
    motivated by the love of one deity for another.
    It’s an old story and we’re in it so deep we have become them.
  • Елена Захарьеваhas quoted4 years ago
    You can manipulate words to turn departure into aperture, but you cannot figure the velocity of love and how it enters every equation. It’s related to the calculation of the speed of light, and how light prevails.
fb2epub
Drag & drop your files (not more than 5 at once)