Joy Harjo Quote

All poets
understand the final uselessness of words. We are chords to
other chords to other chords, if we're lucky, to melody.


In Mad Love and War (1990)


All poets understand the final uselessness of words. We are chords to other chords to other chords, if we're lucky, to melody.

All poets understand the final uselessness of words. We are chords to other chords to other chords, if we're lucky, to melody.

All poets understand the final uselessness of words. We are chords to other chords to other chords, if we're lucky, to melody.

All poets understand the final uselessness of words. We are chords to other chords to other chords, if we're lucky, to melody.