Linda Hogan (writer) Quotes (1947-)

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Linda K. Hogan (born July 16, 1947) is a poet, storyteller, academic, playwright, novelist, environmentalist and writer of short stories. Hogan is a recipient of the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry.

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“Worlds are made of lies and dreams (p 200)”
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“We are, in part, the body of earth (p 206)”
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“They stared ahead, into another future. (p342)”
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“lies are the first recognition of truth. (p45)”
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“At night, alone,
the world is a river in me.”
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“live
so nothing will be left
for death at the end”
“we are a story, each of us, a bundle of stories (p 205)”
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“even stars come apart
in the play of universal wind.”
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“"The law is on their side because it's their law." (p111)”
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“these words,
these words are proof
there is healing”
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“There is always, to everything, a before and after. (p 201)”
“Even the land gives in to history. (from Prologue)”
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“Blessed are they who listen
when no one is left to speak.”
“How absolutely amazing all the life forms and their origins.”
“Beyond walls are lakes and plains,
canyons and the universe”
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“What a joy to share what I loved most with those I loved most.”
“My characters actually create me instead of the other way around.”
“All the stories live in our bodies, he thinks. Every last one. (p116)”
“Uncle Sam was a cold uncle with a mean soul and a cruel spirit. (p219)”
“Day is breaking
through doors.
Earth has made another revolution.”
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“there is a geography of the human spirit, common to all peoples. (p 16)”
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“It took men quite a while to have the courage to look at things differently.”
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“Believing and knowing are two lands distant from each other. (Chapter 2, p40)”
“Whatever has ended, whatever has begun, is strong in the air. (Chapter 3, p73)”
“I feel the air as if I could move through it with my ancestors' wings. (p 202)”

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Linda Hogan (writer) on Poetry 2 quotes

“Poetry is a form of magic for me.”
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Linda Hogan (writer) on Life 2 quotes

“live so nothing will be left for death at the end”
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Linda Hogan (writer) on Story 2 quotes

“They think these are only stories not what holds the world together in its balance.”
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Linda Hogan (writer) on Magic (supernatural)

“Poetry is a form of magic for me.”
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Linda Hogan (writer) on United States

“a savage country of law and order”
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Linda Hogan (writer) on Colors

“when the sun falls and we are all one color”
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Linda Hogan (writer) on Hunger

“it is a kind of hunger that brings us to love”
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Linda Hogan (writer) on Love

“it is a kind of hunger that brings us to love”
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Linda Hogan (writer) on House

“This land is the house we have always lived in”
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Linda Hogan (writer) on Land

“This land is the house we have always lived in”
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Linda Hogan (writer) on Death

“live so nothing will be left for death at the end”
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Linda Hogan (writer) on Healing

“these words, these words are proof there is healing”
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Linda Hogan (writer) on Ernesto Cardenal 2 quotes

“I love poets who bring together poetry and life in all its motion: Neruda, Forché, Cardenal, Dugan, Bishop”
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Linda Hogan (writer) on Gabriel García Márquez 2 quotes

“I read Marquez when I was a student and One Hundred Years of Solitude is kind of the bible that I used to try to figure out stories and how to tell them. But I also think that their [his and Isabel Allende's] sense of indigenous people and the land is very limited.”
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Linda Hogan (writer) on Louise Erdrich 2 quotes

“Louise Erdrich, who recently won the Nelson Algren short fiction award, writes of survival in a tone that has quiet strength. Roles reverse. The hunted and the hunter merge, become one. The poems contain a mystery and depth that charge them with meaning and intensity.”
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Linda Hogan (writer) on Buffy Sainte-Marie

“one of our great musicians”
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Linda Hogan (writer) on Paula Gunn Allen

“Paula Allen has uncanny perception and intellect.”
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Linda Hogan (writer) on Pablo Neruda

“I love poets who bring together poetry and life in all its motion: Neruda, Forché, Cardenal, Dugan, Bishop”
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Linda Hogan (writer) on Elizabeth Bishop

“I love poets who bring together poetry and life in all its motion: Neruda, Forché, Cardenal, Dugan, Bishop”
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Linda Hogan (writer) on Meridel Le Sueur

“Meridel Le Sueur is wonderful. She is still, in my view, a consummate artist, one of the best, most important American writers.”
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Linda Hogan (writer) on Dorothea Lange

“We live not only inside a body but within a story as well, and our story resides in the land as sure as the vision of Dorothea Lange's desperate, running horse.”
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Linda Hogan (writer) on Kenneth Rexroth

“I discovered Rexroth and I was really excited about him. It was the first contemporary poetry I read, and it was alive for me. It became a kind of model for how I wanted to write.”
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Linda Hogan (writer) on Jean-Michel Cousteau

“Jean-Michel Cousteau said he thinks whales are like a living, breathing planet–each one. I love that he said that. I’d thought he’d be a great photographer and a good guy, but he’s also very poetic in how he sees the world”
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Linda Hogan (writer) on Alice Walker

“...there is the powerful need we all have to tell a story, each of us with a piece of the whole pattern to complete. As Alice Walker says, We are all telling part of the same story, and as Sharon Olds has said, Every writer is a cell on the body politic of America.”
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Source on Linda Hogan (writer) 9 quotes

“in our human development we begin with ourselves and move outward toward relationship, and in writing work, it seems to be the same, that most writers begin with their own identity, with autobiography, and then move out toward family, friends, environment, country, world. I have noticed there's a return for many writers as they age…for others the world expands outward more and more, never returning to self...We need for writers to do both. We need the personal in its global context.”
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Ana Castillo on Linda Hogan (writer)

“Her verses teach us how to live with dignity in a world bent on destruction.”
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Louise Erdrich on Linda Hogan (writer)

“Linda Hogan's work is rooted in truth and mystery.”
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Joy Harjo on Linda Hogan (writer)

“I truly feel there is a new language coming about-look at the work of Meridel LeSueur, Sharon Doubiago, Linda Hogan, Alice Walker - it's coming from the women. Something has to be turned around. (1990)”
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Barbara Kingsolver on Linda Hogan (writer)

“A novel that instructs the heart as it binds its curative spell. With her unparalleled gifts for truth and magic, Linda Hogan reinforces my faith in reading, writing, living.”
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Leslie Marmon Silko on Linda Hogan (writer)

“one of our best writers.”
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Cherríe Moraga interview on Linda Hogan (writer)

“In recent years I read much more Native American women's work than anything else; for example, Leslie Marmon Silko and Linda Hogan. I feel an affinity within to these women's work. Their writings run closer to the Chicano experience, given the fact that we both have native roots here in the United States.”

Brenda Peterson on Linda Hogan (writer)

“She is a compassionate witness who reminds us: 'When a person says, "I remember," all things are possible.'”

Craig Santos Perez on Linda Hogan (writer)

“Linda Hogan is one of the most important environmental writers of our time. In this troubled and dark world, I am grateful for the wisdom, light, and love found in these poems.”

Luci Tapahonso on Linda Hogan (writer)

“Drenched in grief and loss though it is, Mean Spirit is a haunting and beautiful story. Hogan's compassion for her characters is what makes the book captivating, bearable. She brings us a long overdue story, one that celebrates the resilience and survival of our own Indian population.”
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Terry Tempest Williams on Linda Hogan (writer)

“There is no one like Linda Hogan. I read her poetry to both calm and ignite my heart.”

About Linda Hogan (writer)

Linda K. Hogan (born July 16, 1947) is a poet, storyteller, academic, playwright, novelist, environmentalist and writer of short stories. Hogan is a recipient of the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry.