“Literature is one facet of a culture.”

— Paula Gunn Allen, The Sacred Hoop (1986)

About Paula Gunn Allen

Laguna Pueblo and Sioux poet, scholar and novelist, author of 'The Sacred Hoop' (1986).

“Acceptance is the better part of grief.”

“Isn't it time we realized the absurdity of calling a tiny brook a mainstream, consigning the great river to marginality?”

“Walden is the self-proclaimed triumph of the isolated, superior individual.”

“If music be the food of love, play on.”

“Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue.”

“If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.”

“The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness.”

“Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.”

“Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.”