N. Scott Momaday Quotes

• We are what we imagine. Our very existence consists in our imagination of ourselves. Our best destiny is to imagine, at least, completely, who and what, and that we are. The greatest tragedy that can befall us is to go unimagined.

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  Native American, Destiny, Imagination

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• Es muy bueno volver a un paisaje que ha tenido un significado extraordinario en la vida de uno. Ocurre que volvemos a esos lugares en nuestra mente de forma irresistible. Hay ciertos pueblos y ciudades, montañas y llanuras que, tras haberlos visto, paseado y vivido en ellos aunque sólo sea un día, guardamos para siempre en la memoria. Se vuelven indispensables para nuestro bienestar; nos definen, y decimos: soy quien soy porque he estado allí, o allí.

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  Travel, Memories, Eye

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• Once in his life, a man ought to concentrate his mind upon the remembered earth, I believe. He ought to give himself up to a particular landscape in his experience, to look at it from as many angles as he can, to wonder about it, to dwell upon it. He ought to imagine that he touches it with his hands at every season and listens to the sounds that are made upon it. He ought to imagine the creatures there and all the faintest motions of the wind. He ought to recollect the glare of noon and all the colors of the dawn and dusk.

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  Creer, Hombres, Manos

  N. Scott Momaday (1976). “The Way to Rainy Mountain”, p.83, UNM Press

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• Anything is bearable if you can make a story out of it.

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  History, Stories, Bearable

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• If you believe in the power of words, you can bring about physical changes in the universe.

  N. Scott Momaday

  Believe, Power Of Words, Ifs

  N. Scott Momaday, Charles Woodard (1989). “Ancestral voice: conversations with N. Scott Momaday”

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• To encounter the sacred is to be alive at the deepest center of human existence. Sacred places are the truest definitions of the earth; they stand for the earth immediately and forever; they are its flags and shields. If you would know the earth for what it really is, learn it through its sacred places. At Devil’s Tower or Canyon de Chelly or the Cahokia Mounds, you touch the pulse of the living planet; you feel its breath upon you. You become one with a spirit that pervades geologic time and space.

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  Space, Forever, Devil

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• A word has power in and of itself. It comes from nothing into sound and meaning; it gives origin to all things.

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  Giving, Sound, All Things

  N. Scott Momaday (1976). “The Way to Rainy Mountain”, p.33, UNM Press

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• 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. If we are to realize and maintain our humanity, we must come to a moral comprehension of earth and air as it is perceived in the long turn of seasons and of years.

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  Air, Blood, Years

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• Words were medicine; they were magic and invisible. They came from nothing into sound and meaning. They were beyond price; they could neither be bought nor sold.

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  Medicine, Magic, Sound

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

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  Sueño, Oscuridad, Noche

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• The highest human purpose is always to reinvent and celebrate the sacred.

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  Religion, Gardening, Purpose

  "Think Diffident". www.wired.com. December 01, 2000.

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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 to be believed in order to be seen.

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  Order, History, Landscape

  "The West (The People)". TV Series, September 15, 1996.

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• Once in his life a man ought to concentrate his mind upon the remembered earth. He ought to give himself up to a particular landscape in his experience; to look at it from as many angles as he can, to wonder upon it, and dwell upon it.

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  Home, Men, Giving

  N. Scott Momaday (1976). “The Way to Rainy Mountain”, p.83, UNM Press

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• Los coyotes tienen el don de no ser vistos casi nunca; se mantienen en el límite de la visión y más allá, entrando y saliendo de la cobertura en las llanuras y las tierras altas. Y por la noche, cuando el mundo entero les pertenece, parlotean en el río con los perros, sus voces más agudas y agudas llenas de autoridad y reprimenda. Son un viejo consejo de payasos, y se les escucha.

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  Dog, Night, Voice

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• The landscape of the American West has to be seen to believed and has to be believed to be seen.

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  American West, West, Landscape

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• For the storyteller, for the arrowmaker, language does indeed represent the only chance for survival.

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  Survival, Doe, Chance

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• La escritura engendra en nosotros ciertas actitudes hacia el lenguaje. Nos anima a dar por sentadas las palabras. La escritura nos ha permitido almacenar indefinidamente grandes cantidades de palabras. Esto es ventajoso por un lado, pero peligroso por otro. El resultado es que hemos desarrollado una especie de falsa seguridad en lo que respecta al lenguaje, y nuestra sensibilidad hacia el lenguaje se ha deteriorado. Y, en proporción, nos hemos vuelto insensibles al silencio.

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  Attitude, Writing, Hands

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• I sometimes think the contemporary white American is more culturally deprived than the Indian.

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  Thinking, White, Sometimes

  "Pioneer of Modern Native American Literature". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 28, 1996.

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• It is here that I can concentrate my mind upon the Remembered Earth. It is here that I am most conscious of being, here that wonder comes upon my blood, here I want to live forever; and it is no matter that I must die.

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  Blood, Forever, Mind

  "Remembered Earth: New Mexico's High Desert". www.pbs.org. 2005.

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• Indians are marvelous storytellers. In some ways, that oral tradition is stronger than the written tradition.

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  Stronger, Oral Tradition, Way

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• The first word gives origin to the second, the first and second to the third, and the third to the fourth, and so on. You cannot begin with the second word.

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  Giving, Firsts, Thirds

  N. Scott Momaday (1976). “The Names: A Memoir”, p.154, University of Arizona Press

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• Your imagination comes to life, and this, you think, is where Creation was begun.

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  Thinking, Imagination, Creation

  N. Scott Momaday (1976). “The Way to Rainy Mountain”, p.5, UNM Press

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• The character of the landscape changes from hour to hour, day to day, season to season. Nothing of the earth can be taken for granted; you feel that Creation is going on in your sight. You see things in the high air that you do not see farther down in the lowlands. In the high country all objects bear upon you, and you touch hard upon the earth. From my home I can see the huge, billowing clouds; they draw close upon me and merge with my life.

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  Country, Taken, Character

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• They have assumed the names and gestures of their enemies, but have held on to their own, secret souls; and in this there is a resistance and an overcoming, a long outwaiting.

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  Names, Long, Soul

  N. Scott Momaday, Matthias Schubnell (1997). “Conversations with N. Scott Momaday”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

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• There was only the dark infinity in which nothing was. And something happened. At the distance of a star something happened, and everything began. The Word did not come into being, but it was. It did not break upon the silence, but it was older than the silence and the silence was made of it.

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  Stars, Distance, Dark

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