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

~ N. Scott Momaday

Am As Far As Composed Concerned Concerning Condition Far Human Human Condition I Am Poetry Statement Verse

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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

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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.

~ N. Scott Momaday

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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

Being Cultures Different Different Cultures Exposed Good Indian Knowledge Languages Living Pretty Pretty Good Reservations Several Virtue World

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I have deep roots in this Oklahoma soil. It makes me proud.

~ N. Scott Momaday

Deep Makes Me Oklahoma Proud Roots Soil

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

~ N. Scott Momaday

Indians Marvelous Oral Some Storytellers Stronger Than Tradition Ways Written

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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

Art Child Could Draw Father He Indian Knew Me Never Once Painter Said Taught Who

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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.

~ N. Scott Momaday

Acute Balance Best Between Done Hard Humorous I Think Kind Poem Serious Sometimes Strike Think Very Which

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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

Affects Another Developed Every Evident Highly I Think Indian Life One-Way Person Reality Spiritual Think Very Way World

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Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.

~ N. Scott Momaday

Blood Choice Matter Somehow Temperament Tradition Write Writers Writing

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