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title: "2 Angle Quotes By N. Scott Momaday"
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> [Once in his life a man ought to concentrate his mind upon the remembered earth. He ought to give himself up to a particular landscape in his experience; to look at it from as many angles as he can, to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/n-scott-momaday/once-in-his-life-a-man-ought-to-concentrate-his-mind-upon-the/)

[N. Scott Momaday](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/n-scott-momaday/)

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> [“Once in his life a man ought to concentrate his mind upon the remembered earth. He ought to give himself up to a particular landscape in his experience; to look at it from as many angles as he can, to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/n-scott-momaday/once-in-his-life-a-man-ought-to-concentrate-his-mind-upon-the-2/)

[N. Scott Momaday](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/n-scott-momaday/)

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## Other authors on Angle

## More by N. Scott Momaday

> [It is here that I can concentrate my mind upon the Remembered Earth. It is here that I am most conscious of being, here…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/n-scott-momaday/it-is-here-that-i-can-concentrate-my-mind-upon-the-remembered-earth/)

[N. Scott Momaday](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/n-scott-momaday/)

> [“He wondered what his sorrow was and could not remember.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/n-scott-momaday/he-wondered-what-his-sorrow-was-and-could-not-remember/)

[N. Scott Momaday](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/n-scott-momaday/)

> [I wonder if, in the dark night of the sea, the octopus dreams of me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/n-scott-momaday/i-wonder-if-in-the-dark-night-of-the-sea-the-octopus-dreams-of-me/)

[N. Scott Momaday](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/n-scott-momaday/)

> [Sometimes, I think the best kind of poem is one in which there is an acute balance between what is humorous and that which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/n-scott-momaday/sometimes-i-think-the-best-kind-of-poem-is-one-in-which-there-is-an/)

[N. Scott Momaday](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/n-scott-momaday/)

> [Once in his life a man ought to concentrate his mind upon the remembered earth. He ought to give himself up to a particular…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/n-scott-momaday/once-in-his-life-a-man-ought-to-concentrate-his-mind-upon-the/)

[N. Scott Momaday](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/n-scott-momaday/)

> [My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who could not draw.'](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/n-scott-momaday/my-father-was-a-painter-and-he-taught-art-he-once-said-to-me-i-never/)

[N. Scott Momaday](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/n-scott-momaday/if-coupling-should-but-make-us-whole-and-of-the-selfsame-mind-and/)

[N. Scott Momaday](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/n-scott-momaday/)

> [In the beginning was the word, and it was spoken.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/n-scott-momaday/in-the-beginning-was-the-word-and-it-was-spoken/)

[N. Scott Momaday](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/n-scott-momaday/)

> [The Kiowas reckoned their stature by the distance they could see.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/n-scott-momaday/the-kiowas-reckoned-their-stature-by-the-distance-they-could-see/)

[N. Scott Momaday](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/n-scott-momaday/)

> [“Once in his life a man ought to concentrate his mind upon the remembered earth. He ought to give himself up to a particular…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/n-scott-momaday/once-in-his-life-a-man-ought-to-concentrate-his-mind-upon-the-2/)

[N. Scott Momaday](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/n-scott-momaday/)

> [Indians are marvelous storytellers. In some ways, that oral tradition is stronger than the written tradition.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/n-scott-momaday/indians-are-marvelous-storytellers-in-some-ways-that-oral-tradition/)

[N. Scott Momaday](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/n-scott-momaday/)

> [Your imagination comes to life, and this, you think, is where Creation was begun.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/n-scott-momaday/your-imagination-comes-to-life-and-this-you-think-is-where-creation/)

[N. Scott Momaday](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/n-scott-momaday/)

> [As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/n-scott-momaday/as-far-as-i-am-concerned-poetry-is-a-statement-concerning-the-human/)

[N. Scott Momaday](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/n-scott-momaday/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/n-scott-momaday/it-s-a-landscape-that-has-to-be-seen-to-be-believed-and-as-i-say-on/)

[N. Scott Momaday](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/n-scott-momaday/there-was-only-the-dark-infinity-in-which-nothing-was-and-something/)

[N. Scott Momaday](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/n-scott-momaday/)

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