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- Nov 07, 2020
Ceremonial Quotes
Ritual grace, passed down.
Ceremonial quotes here connect poetry to its most formal roots, describe sacred Muscogee ground tied to the birthplace of jazz, and recall an interview with a 103-year-old Lakota ceremonial chief. Together they treat ceremony as a serious carrier of cultural memory. For more on artistic expression, see our Art quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Beauty
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- Nov 07, 2020
A suit is just a suit: a practical garment, not a ceremonial robe; it can be worn out to dinner with friends or for a visit to an art gallery. Its beauty and craftsmanship are utterly wasted if you think of it as something magical and symbolic.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The aboriginal women leaders of Papunya - the Papunya Artists - performed a dance for me: the Honey Ant dance. They'd never done it for anyone else. They honoured me with a ceremonial stick that signifies the story of the land.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Medical knowledge and technical savvy are biodegradable. The sort of medicine that was practiced in Boston or New York or Atlanta fifty years ago would be as strange to a medical student or intern today as the ceremonial dance of a !Kung San tribe would seem to a rock festival audience in Hackensack.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most people don't know that Congo Square was originally a Muscogee ceremonial ground... in New Orleans, the birthplace of jazz.
- Good Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was interviewing an elder, Chief Fool's Crow, who was the ceremonial chief. He was 103 years old. I was getting his information on the history of Lakota horses. He told me the story of Hidalgo and Frank Hopkins.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom.
- Exercises
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- Nov 07, 2020
The exercises of our meeting are to be simple and devoid of all ceremonial and formalism.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
As PM, you have got to do everything from chairing the Cabinet to ceremonial things. You have also got to do the nitty gritty. I do get stuck into the detail.
- Role
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- Nov 07, 2020