"I wonder if, in the dark night of……" — N. Scott Momaday

I wonder if, in the dark night of the sea, the octopus… - N. Scott Momaday

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

— N. Scott Momaday

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31 Quotes by N. Scott Momaday

N. Scott Momaday has 31 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Once in his life a man ought to concentrate his mind upon the remembered earth. He ought to give himself…
The turn of the century was the lowest point for the devastation of Indian culture by disease and persecution, and…
Writing engenders in us certain attitudes toward language. It encourages us to take words for granted. Writing has enabled us…
In the beginning was the word, and it was spoken.
To look upon that landscape in the early morning, with the sun at your back, is to lose the sense…
He used both hands when he made the bear. Imagine a bear proceeding from the hands of God.
I sometimes think the contemporary white American is more culturally deprived than the Indian.
For the storyteller, for the arrowmaker, language does indeed represent the only chance for survival.
I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our…
There is a great good in returning to a landscape that has had extraordinary meaning in one's life. It happens…
It's a landscape that has to be seen to be believed. And as I say on occasion, it may have…
Your imagination comes to life, and this, you think, is where Creation was begun.

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I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am… — Arthur Ashe
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I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and… — Margaret Atwood
O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy… — Saint Augustine
Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story,… — Paul Auster
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased… — Francis Bacon
My natural instinct after doing something shameful is not to rush into the street boasting about it but to put… — Russell Baker
Certainly I have no attraction to misery. I don't intentionally go for dark. — Christian Bale
I live in constant fear of being fired or dropped for that dark part of my work I can't control. — Lynda Barry
I guess I do have a childlike sense of fun, and although I still have my dark days, I'm generally… — Drew Barrymore
Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America.… — L. Frank Baum

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