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Quotes from In the Bear's House — N. Scott Momaday

1934–2024

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5 quotes

YAHWEH
Nothing will come of [evolution], as it has come from nothing.

In the Bear's House (1999)

Bear is an impractical visionary. His eyesight is weak, but he sees beyond the edge of the world, beyond time...

In the Bear's House (1999)

YAHWEH
[Poetry] is the highest of all languages... higher even than mathematics. It is on a plane with music.

In the Bear's House (1999)

YAHWEH
Poor Man, he had been trying so hard to talk, for such a long time. Then the children went out and played together. At the end of the day they had possession of language.

In the Bear's House (1999)

Something in me hungers for wild mountains and rivers and plains. I love to be on Bear's ground... And Bear is welcome in my dreams, for in that cave of sleep I am at home to Bear.

In the Bear's House (1999)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: N. Scott Momaday (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.