N. Scott Momaday Quotes
Top 26 wise famous quotes and sayings by N. Scott Momaday
N. Scott Momaday Famous Quotes & Sayings
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A word has power in and of itself. It comes from nothing into sound and meaning; it gives origin to all things.
Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.
For the storyteller, for the arrowmaker, language does indeed represent the only chance for survival.
Indians are marvelous storytellers. In some ways, that oral tradition is stronger than the written tradition.
It's a landscape that has to be seen to be believed. And as I say on occasion, it may have to be believed in order to be seen.
My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who could not draw.'
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.
To look upon that landscape in the early morning, with the sun at your back, is to lose the sense of proportion.
It was not an exclamation so much, I think, as it was a warding off, an exertion of language upon ignorance and disorder.