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The Path on the Rainbow: An Anthology of Songs and Chants from the Indians of North America QUOTES

1 " Mr. James Mooney investigated this interesting phenomenon and actually discovered the Seer, who proved to be an inoffensive visionary dwelling in a remote valley of the Southwest. This young man's life and theories (a full-blood, apparently untouched by Christian influence), curiously resembled those of Christ, and like the latter, he preached the doctrines of Nonresistance and the Brotherhood of Man. In this case our government played the part of Rome. "

― Carl Sandburg , The Path on the Rainbow: An Anthology of Songs and Chants from the Indians of North America

2 " Poetry is the Path on the Rainbow by which the soul climbs; it lays hold on the Friend of the Soul of Man. Such exalted states are held to be protective and curative. Medicine men sing for their patients, and, in times of war, wives gather around the Chief's woman and sing for the success of their warriors. "Calling on Zeus by the names of Victory" as Euripides puts it. "

― Carl Sandburg , The Path on the Rainbow: An Anthology of Songs and Chants from the Indians of North America

3 " I know of no task so salutory to the poet who would, first of all, put himself in touch with the resident genius of his own land. "

― Carl Sandburg , The Path on the Rainbow: An Anthology of Songs and Chants from the Indians of North America

4 " An inquiry which I once made into the psychology of the Indian sign language with a view to discovering a possible relation between it and Greek manual gesture as displayed in ancient graphic art, led to the conclusion that Indian rhythms arise rather in the centre of self-preservation than of self-consciousness. Which is only another way of saying that poetry is valued primarily by the aboriginal for the reaction it produces within himself rather than for any effect he is able to produce on others by means of it. "

― Carl Sandburg , The Path on the Rainbow: An Anthology of Songs and Chants from the Indians of North America

5 " SONG OF THE MAN WHO WAS TO BE HUNG The thunders will take me home, whenever I mind to go home, my friends, and the wind it will take me home, too. "

― Carl Sandburg , The Path on the Rainbow: An Anthology of Songs and Chants from the Indians of North America