"As far as I am concerned, poetry is……" — N. Scott Momaday
"As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse."
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31 Quotes by N. Scott Momaday
N. Scott Momaday has 31 quotes on this site.
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Once in his life a man ought to concentrate his mind upon the remembered earth. He ought to give himself…
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The turn of the century was the lowest point for the devastation of Indian culture by disease and persecution, and…
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Writing engenders in us certain attitudes toward language. It encourages us to take words for granted. Writing has enabled us…
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In the beginning was the word, and it was spoken.
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To look upon that landscape in the early morning, with the sun at your back, is to lose the sense…
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He used both hands when he made the bear. Imagine a bear proceeding from the hands of God.
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I sometimes think the contemporary white American is more culturally deprived than the Indian.
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For the storyteller, for the arrowmaker, language does indeed represent the only chance for survival.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our…
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There is a great good in returning to a landscape that has had extraordinary meaning in one's life. It happens…
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It's a landscape that has to be seen to be believed. And as I say on occasion, it may have…
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Your imagination comes to life, and this, you think, is where Creation was begun.
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More Composed Quotes
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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
— Aristotle
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The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity.
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is…
— Walter Benjamin
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The mental body, like the astral, varies much in different people; it is composed of coarser or of finer matter,…
— Annie Besant
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Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
— Samuel Butler
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Speaking of Twitter, I don't even know if I composed a blog entry in 2009, as I was too busy…
— Diablo Cody
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Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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Life processes take place in an aqueous medium. All organisms are composed mostly of water, whether they dwell in the…
— Robert E. Lee
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If you have a glass full of liquid you can discourse forever on its qualities, discuss whether it is cold,…
— Taisen Deshimaru
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The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress.
— Confucius
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Nor was civil society founded merely to preserve the lives of its members; but that they might live well: for…
— Aristotle
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Society is composed of two great classes, those that have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite…
— Nicolas Chamfort
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