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

— N. Scott Momaday In the Bear's House (1999)

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Every six or seven years there is a great harvest of piñones far to the east of town. That harvest, like the deer in the mountains, is the gift of God.

House Made of Dawn (1968)

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

In the Bear's House (1999)

The sun is at home on the plains. Precisely there does it have the certain character of a god.

The Way to Rainy Mountain (1969)

The imaginative experience and the historical express equally the traditions of man's reality.

The Way to Rainy Mountain (1969)

The stories that I keep close... are those that yield more and more of their spirit in time.

The Man Made of Words (1997)

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There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all the parts, that is, the poet.

Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature (1836)

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality.

T. S. Eliot Tradition and the Individual Talent (1919)

Poetry, unlike oratory, should not aim at clarity...but be dense with meaning, 'something to be chewed and digested'.

George Chapman Ovid's Banquet of Sense (1595)

I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds.

Michael Faraday

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