Black Elk - Horses Quotes

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After the horse dance was over, it seemed that I was above the ground and did not touch it when I walked.

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He was the chief of all the horses; and when he snorted, it was a flash of lightning and his eyes were like the sunset star.

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I looked about me once again, and suddenly the dancing horses without number changed into animals of every kind and into all the fowls that are, and these fled back to the four quarters of the world from whence the horses came, and vanished.

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Then the bay horse spoke to me again and said: "See how your horses all come dancing!" I looked, and there were horses, horses everywhere — a whole skyfull of horses dancing around me.

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All around the circle, feeding on the green, green grass were fat and happy horses...

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You remember that my great vision came to me when I was only nine years old, and you have seen that I was not much good for anything until after I had performed the horse dance near the mouth of the Tongue River during my eighteenth summer.

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