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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
But I watched its struggles daily, its games

— Linda Hogan fragment from Indios (2012)

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Blessed are they who listen
when no one is left to speak.

They think these are only stories
not what holds the world together
in its balance.

A History of Kindness (2020)

This land is the house we have always lived in

Dark. Sweet.: New & Selected Poems (2014)

It really is true that the history of your people and your land is in the human body.

Some men sleep
with loose hands that by day are fists
holding fear

Dark. Sweet.: New & Selected Poems (2014)

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There is no governor anywhere; you are all absolutely free. There is no restraint that cannot be escaped.

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When we see a great man desiring power instead of his real goal we soon recognize that he is sick, or more precisely that his attitude to his work is sick.

Martin Buber What is Man? (1938)

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

C. S. Lewis God in the Dock (1970)

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