It is a paradox in the contemporary world that in our desire for peace we must willingly give ourselves to struggle.
Linda HoganIt has seemed so strange to me that the larger culture, with its own absence of spirit and lack of attachment for the land, respects these very things about Indian traditions, without adopting those respected ways themselves.
Linda HoganThere are ways in, journeys to the center of life, through time; through air, matter, dream and thought. The ways are not always mapped or charted, but sometimes being lost, if there is such a thing, is the sweetest place to be. And always, in this search, a person might find that she is already there, at the center of the world. It may be a broken world, but it is glorious nonetheless.
Linda HoganPoetry has its own laws speaking for the life of the planet. It is a language that wants to bring back together what the other words have torn apart.
Linda Hogan