Poetry Statement Quotes 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…

— N. Scott Momaday

“He wondered what his sorrow was and could not remember.”

— N. Scott Momaday

I wonder if, in the dark night of the sea, the octopus dreams of me.

— 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…

— 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…

— 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.'

— 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

In the beginning was the word, and it was spoken.

— N. Scott Momaday

The Kiowas reckoned their stature by the distance they could see.

— 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…

— N. Scott Momaday

Indians are marvelous storytellers. In some ways, that oral tradition is stronger than the written tradition.

— N. Scott Momaday

Your imagination comes to life, and this, you think, is where Creation was begun.

— N. Scott Momaday