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" As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse. "
Statement
I Am
Human
" 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. "
Dance
Story
Society
" 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. "
I Am
Look
Landscape
" 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. "
Knowledge
Living
Virtue
" I have deep roots in this Oklahoma soil. It makes me proud. "
Soil
Me
Deep
" Indians are marvelous storytellers. In some ways, that oral tradition is stronger than the written tradition. "
Indians
Tradition
Some
" My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who could not draw.' "
Child
Art
Father
" 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. "
Balance
Best
Done
" 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. "
World
Think
Spiritual
" Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition. "
Writing
Choice
Tradition
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