Totem Poles

Famous quotes containing the words totem poles, totem and/or poles:

    “Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    “Now defined as art, the totem has lost cult, taboo, and custom.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    “I see you boys of summer in your ruin.
    Man in his maggot’s barren.
    And boys are full and foreign in the pouch.
    I am the man your father was.
    We are the sons of flint and pitch.
    O see the poles are kissing as they cross.”
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)