"The two forms basic to American Indian literature are the ceremony and the myth. The ceremony is the ritual enactment…"

"All men promiscuously do homage to God, but very few truly reverence him. On all hands there is abundance of ostentat…"

"Ceremony is a vehicle for belonging—to a family, to a people, and to the land."

"That, I think, is the power of ceremony: it marries the mundane to the sacred."

"What else can you offer the earth, which has everything? What else can you give but something of yourself? A homemade…"

"Ceremony focuses attention so that attention becomes intention. If you stand together and profess a thing before your…"

"What infinite heart's ease Must kings neglect, that private men enjoy? And what have kings that privates have not too…"

"What art thou, thou idol ceremony? What kind of god art thou, that suffer'st more Of mortal griefs than do thy worshi…"

"O ceremony, show me but thy worth! What is thy soul of adoration? Art thou aught else but place, degree, and form, Cr…"

"To feed were best at home; From thence the sauce to meat is ceremony; Meeting were bare without it."