If you believe in the power of words, you can bring about physical changes in the universe. — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
For the storyteller, for the arrowmaker, language does indeed represent the only chance for survival. — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
I have a pretty good knowledge of the Indian world by virtue of living on several different reservations and being exposed to… — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
The first word gives origin to the second, the first and second to the third, and the third to the fourth, and… — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
“It was not an exclamation so much, I think, as it was a warding off, an exertion of language upon ignorance and… — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
Words were medicine; they were magic and invisible. They came from nothing into sound and meaning. They were beyond price; they could… — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
A word has power in and of itself. It comes from nothing into sound and meaning; it gives origin to all things. — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
Writing engenders in us certain attitudes toward language. It encourages us to take words for granted. Writing has enabled us to store… — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
“In the white man's world, language, too -- and the way which the white man thinks of it--has undergone a process of… — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
It is here that I can concentrate my mind upon the Remembered Earth. It is here that I am most conscious of being, here… — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share
Sometimes, I think the best kind of poem is one in which there is an acute balance between what is humorous and that which… — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share
Once in his life a man ought to concentrate his mind upon the remembered earth. He ought to give himself up to a particular… — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share
My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who could not draw.' — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share
“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 Copy Share
“Once in his life a man ought to concentrate his mind upon the remembered earth. He ought to give himself up to a particular… — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share
Indians are marvelous storytellers. In some ways, that oral tradition is stronger than the written tradition. — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share
Your imagination comes to life, and this, you think, is where Creation was begun. — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share
As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse. — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share
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… — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share
There was only the dark infinity in which nothing was. And something happened. At the distance of a star something happened, and everything began.… — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share
