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.

- Linda Hogan

We make art out of our loss.

- Linda Hogan

There 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, b…

- Linda Hogan

There is a language beyond human language, an elemental language, one that arises from the land itself.

- Linda Hogan

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

- Linda Hogan

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.

- Linda Hogan

Some people see scars, and it is wounding they remember. To me they are proof of the fact that there is healing.

- Linda Hogan

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

- Linda Hogan

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…

- Linda Hogan