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;....

There was only the dark infinity in which nothing was. And something happened. At the distance of a star....

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....

I prayed. He was going home, and I wanted to pray. Look out for me, I said; look out each day and listen....

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....

We are what we imagine. Our very existence consists in our imagination of ourselves. Our best destiny....

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