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“Every Native North American text I've ever grappled with has taught me something important about how to live on the continent where I was born.”

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Robert Bringhurst

Robert Bringhurst, born on October 16, 1946, is a Canadian poet whose works are known for their profound philosophical insights and unique poetic forms. more

“I've done many, many French movies and many, many English movies. I think it frees something when you don't talk in your mother language, but I also think you withdraw something as well. I'm a French actress, and sometimes I speak in English-speaking roles. For me, being an actress was always being a traveler. It goes together.”

Thinking Sometimes Done Together Mother Speak Language Traveler

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“It isn't so unusual for poems to situate themselves out of doors - though they may, at the same time, be set in an interior world: not inside the house but inside the mind and body of writer and reader.”

World Mind House Unusual Mind And Body

Author:Robert Bringhurst

“A lot of poems seem, in some sense, to pull the outside world into the interior. They aren't perhaps emotion recollected in tranquillity but perception recollected in interiority.”

World Emotion Perception

Author:Robert Bringhurst

“In the native literatures of North America there aren't any novels. Instead, the major genre is myth. And myths are stories that are fundamentally about the world, not about human individuals. A myth needn't include any humans at all. If it does include them, they're usually minor characters - imaginary humans sent out like scouts to report back on what's happening in the mythworld, but not central participants in the action.”

World Character Action Literature Individual Novel Myth Native Imaginary

Author:Robert Bringhurst

“Many intellectual heroes in the European tradition seem to find the great outdoors a chilling prospect - and its literary analogue, the mythworld, equally chilling. As if a world in which humans have no leverage, and might not be present at all, couldn't be interesting to humans.”

World Interesting Hero Intellectual Tradition Chill

Author:Robert Bringhurst

“The claim that myth is always a narrative spin-off of ritual; the claim that myth is the projection of human anxieties onto a cosmological scrim; the claim that myths are invented to give sanction to human predilections and institutions... These are ways of trivializing a mode of thought that has served humanity well for a very long time.”

Giving Long Humanity Anxiety Myth Ritual

Author:Robert Bringhurst

“Anxiety projection can and does occur - in myth, in music, in fiction, and in the doctor's office too. That doesn't make it the basis of everything.”

Office Anxiety Myth

Author:Robert Bringhurst

“Nature, or the world, or reality, is what mythology is all about.”

World Reality Mythology

Author:Robert Bringhurst

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