Quotes by John G. Neihardt

"And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being."
— John G. Neihardt
"Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking."
— John G. Neihardt
"How could men get fat by being bad and starve by being good? I thought and thought about my vision, and it made me very sad."
— John G. Neihardt
John G. Neihardt

John Gneisenau Neihardt (January 8, 1881 – November 3, 1973) was an American writer and poet, amateur historian and ethnographer. Born at the end of the American settlement of the Plains, he became in...