Quotes by Oliver La Farge

“Time passing and corn growing cannot be seen; one can notice only that the moon has grown so much older, the corn so much higher.””

“With you I could live, without you I was already dead.””

“When the sun has been destroyed for a man, what comfort is there in a world of moonlight?””

“Why should he worry himself about this woman? And why should he worry about anything else as long as he had this woman?””

“He was a young man very much in love, a young man with a mind made up to love.””

“Her American education had dulled her sensibility to the quick, compact imagery of a single statement, leaving to the hearer the evocation of the picture intended that forms the basis of Navajo poetry.””

“An Indian takes the weather passively, accepting and enduring it without the European’s mental revolt or impatience. Comfort and fat living had changed this to some degree in Laughing Boy; he was unusually aware of discomfort, and resentful, rating the blizzard as colder than it was. Slim Girl was simply miserable. They did not speak, but jogged on, punishing their horses.””