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.”

N. Scott Momaday

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

N. Scott Momaday book The Way to Rainy Mountain

Source: The Way to Rainy Mountain

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

N. Scott Momaday

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

N. Scott Momaday

“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.”

N. Scott Momaday book House Made of Dawn

Source: House Made of Dawn