Quotes by : N. Scott Momaday

If coupling should but make us whole / And of the selfsame mind and soul, / Then couple let's in celebration;....

Writing engenders in us certain attitudes toward language. It encourages us to take words for granted.....

To encounter the sacred is to be alive at the deepest center of human existence. Sacred places are the....

As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse.

Coyotes have the gift of seldom being seen; they keep to the edge of vision and beyond, loping in and....

In the beginning was the Word'. I have taken as my text this evening the almighty Word itself. Now get....

In the white man's world, language, too -- and the way which the white man thinks of it--has undergone....

The people of the town have little need. They do not hanker after progress and have never changed their....

I have a pretty good knowledge of the Indian world by virtue of living on several different reservations....

He used both hands when he made the bear. Imagine a bear proceeding from the hands of God.