Top 36 Linda Hogan Quotes
#2. Humans colonizing and conquering others have a propensity for this, for burning behind them what they cannot possess or control, as if their conflicts are not with themselves and their own way of being, but with the land itself.
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#3. Between earth and earth's atmosphere, the amount of water remains constant; there is never a drop more, never a drop less. This is a story of circular infinity, of a planet birthing itself.
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#4. Mystery is part of each life, and maybe it is healthier to uphold it than to spend a lifetime in search of half-made answers.
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#5. I resented my mother for guessing my innermost secrets. She was like God, everywhere at once knowing everything.
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#6. Tears have a purpose. they are what we carry of the ocean, and perhaps we must become the sea, give ourselves to it, if we are to be transformed.
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#7. Sometimes there is a wellspring or river of something beautiful and possible in the tenderest sense that comes to and from the most broken of children, and I was one of these, and whatever is was, I can't name, I can only thank. Perhaps it is the water of life that saves us, after all.
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#9. The real ceremony begins where the formal one ends, when we take up a new way, our minds and hearts filled with the vision of earth that holds us within it, in compassionate relationship to and with our world.
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#10. As for me, I have a choice between honoring that dark life I've seen so many years moving in the junipers, or of walking away and going on with my own human busyness. There is always that choice for humans.
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#11. We are full of bread and gas, getting fat on the outside while inside we grow thin
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#12. To be a hero you always have to betray something or someone.
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#13. Now they were merely trying to fill themselves up but not with the heart, not the soul. They'd lost both those along the way ...
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#14. Poetry is a string of words that parades without a permit.
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#15. It 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.
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#16. What a strange alchemy we have worked, turning earth around to destroy itself, using earth's own elements to wound it.
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#17. Can we love what will swallow us when we are gone? I do.
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#18. Even if the older mind lives by remembering, the young mind lives by forgetting.
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#19. There is a geography of the human spirit, common to all peoples.
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#20. I longed to be a flowering branch,
the sea in its rocking, an unguessed world.
Even now it seems so much as if the body was only
the desire of the planet,
as if it could turn itself into the universe
both together, the same,
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#21. The crocodile doesn't harm the bird that cleans his teeth for him. He eats the others but not that one.
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#22. I think of that word, power, and what it means. It means you feed your people, you help the world. I never understood what else there was to it
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#23. There is no real aloneness. There is solitude and the nurturing silence that is relationship with ourselves, but even then we are part of something larger.
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#24. Poetry 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.
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#25. Some people see scars, and it is wounding they remember. To me they are proof of the fact that there is healing.
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#26. A spoken story is larger than one unheard, unsaid. In nearly all creation accounts, words or songs are how the world was created, the animals sung into existence.
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#27. It is a paradox in the contemporary world that in our desire for peace we must willingly give ourselves to struggle.
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#28. There were times when the light of the moon had gone out and she felt a great loneliness. It wasn't for herself. It was for what had happened to the grasses of their land, their waters, not just the massacre there, the slavery, but the killing of the ocean.
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#29. Oblivion, she thought. That was the world she lived in. It was what they should name some countries, towns, and places.
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#30. Stories are for people what water is for plants.
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#31. When men decide in their secretly dark or hungry hearts to work their own will, there is little that can stop them. They have inner weather, sometimes unpredictable.
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#32. All the stories live in our bodies, he thinks. Every last one.
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#33. Let's kneel down through all the worlds of the body like lovers. I know I am a tree and full of life and I know you, you are the flying one and will leave. But can't we swallow the sweetness and can't you sing in my arms and sleep in the human light of the sun and moon I have been drinking alone.
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#34. There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story.
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#35. Telling about our lives is important for those who come after as, for those who will see our experience as part of their own historical struggle.
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#36. She was an anchor but at least now she knew it had an end, a stopping place. It hit bottom. She could fall no deeper.
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