Quotes by Linda Hogan

Linda Hogan

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.

Animal

Song

Stories

A woman once described a friend of hers as being such a keen listener that even the trees leaned toward her, as if they were speaking their innermost secrets into her listening ears. Over the years I’ve envisioned that woman’s silence, a hearing full and open enough that the world told her its stories. The green leaves turned toward her, whispering tales of soft breezes and the murmurs of leaf against leaf.

Listening Ear

Silence

Years

And there is also the paradox that the dominating culture imbues the Indian past with great meaning and significance; it is valued more because it is seen as part of the past. And it is the romantic past, not the present, that holds meaning and spiritual significance for so many members of the dominating culture. 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.

Attachment

Past

Spiritual

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.

Rain

Rivers

Water

Death is dancing me ragged.

Dancing

Death

Ragged

I resented my mother for guessing my innermost secrets. She was like God, everywhere at once knowing everything.

Knowing Everything

Mother

Secret

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.

Attachment

Justice

Land

It is a paradox in the contemporary world that in our desire for peace we must willingly give ourselves to struggle.

Desire

Giving

Struggle

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.

Drinking

Moon

Sleep

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.

Answers

Half

Mystery

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Air

Animal

Answers

Arise

Art

Attachment

Beautiful

Bird

Bread

Children

Common

Dancing

Dark

Death

Desire

Differences

Dream

Drinking

Encouraging

Fats

Flower

Garden

Gas

Geography

Giving

Half

Harm

Historical

Important

Inspirational

Islands

Journey

Justice

Knowing

Knowing Everything

Land

Language

Law

Listening Ear

Loss

Love

Moon

Mother

Mystery

Nature

Ocean

Pain

Parades

Past

Patience

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Quotes by Linda Hogan

Linda Hogan

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.

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.

Death is dancing me ragged.

I resented my mother for guessing my innermost secrets. She was like God, everywhere at once knowing everything.

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.

It is a paradox in the contemporary world that in our desire for peace we must willingly give ourselves to struggle.

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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