“ Writing engenders in us certain attitudes toward language. It encourages us to take words for granted. Writing has enabled us to store vast quantities of words indefinitely. This is advantageous on th… N. Scott Momaday
“ As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse. N. Scott Momaday
“ I have a pretty good knowledge of the Indian world by virtue of living on several different reservations and being exposed to several different cultures and languages. N. Scott Momaday
“ We are what we imagine. Our very existence consists in our imagination of ourselves. Our best destiny is to imagine, at least, completely, who and what, and that we are. The greatest tragedy that can… N. Scott Momaday
“ I prayed. He was going home, and I wanted to pray. Look out for me, I said; look out each day and listen for me. And we were going together on horses to the hills. We were going to ride out in the fir… N. Scott Momaday
“ Coyotes have the gift of seldom being seen; they keep to the edge of vision and beyond, loping in and out of cover on the plains and highlands. And at night, when the whole world belongs to them, they… N. Scott Momaday
“ If coupling should but make us whole / And of the selfsame mind and soul, / Then couple let's in celebration; / We have contained the population. N. Scott Momaday
“ To look upon that landscape in the early morning, with the sun at your back, is to lose the sense of proportion. N. Scott Momaday
“ The people of the town have little need. They do not hanker after progress and have never changed their essential way of life. Their invaders were a long time in conquering them; and now, after four c… N. Scott Momaday
“ He used both hands when he made the bear. Imagine a bear proceeding from the hands of God. N. Scott Momaday
“ In the white man's world, language, too -- and the way which the white man thinks of it--has undergone a process of change. The white man takes such things as words and literatures for granted, as ind… N. Scott Momaday
“ To encounter the sacred is to be alive at the deepest center of human existence. Sacred places are the truest definitions of the earth; they stand for the earth immediately and forever; they are its f… N. Scott Momaday
“ There was only the dark infinity in which nothing was. And something happened. At the distance of a star something happened, and everything began. The Word did not come into being, but it was. It did… N. Scott Momaday
