N. Scott Momaday Quotes & Sayings

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10 most famous N. Scott Momaday quotes and sayings. He's a 90 year old American author born on Feb 27, 1934.

N. Scott Momaday Quotes
“I have deep roots in this Oklahoma soil. It makes me proud.”
N. Scott Momaday Quotes
“I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.”
“I am a member of the Kiowa Gourd Dance Society; I visit sacred places such as Devil's Tower and the Medicine Wheel. These places are important to me, because they've been made sacred by sacrifice, by the investment of blood and experience and story.”
N. Scott Momaday Quotes
“Indians are marvelous storytellers. In some ways, that oral tradition is stronger than the written tradition.”
N. Scott Momaday Quotes
“I have a pretty good knowledge of the Indian world by virtue of living on several different reservations and being exposed to several different cultures and languages.”
N. Scott Momaday Quotes
“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 Quotes
“As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse.”
N. Scott Momaday Quotes
“The spiritual reality of the Indian world is very evident, very highly developed. I think it affects the life of every Indian person in one way or another.”
N. Scott Momaday Quotes
“Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.”
“Sometimes, I think the best kind of poem is one in which there is an acute balance between what is humorous and that which is very serious. That balance is very hard to strike. But it can be done.”

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