“I wasn’t anybody at all. And I began to get afraid that all at once maybe my eyes would break open like soap bubbles and everybody would see there wasn’t anything there, just a vile mess. And I was afraid… — Linda Wagner-Martin Copy Share Image
“The image of identity we must daily fight to impress on the neutral, or hostile, world collapses inward: we feel crushed. Burdened” — Linda Wagner-Martin Copy Share Image
“What was hard was discovering the true life of the poem inside its technical scaffolding.” — Linda Wagner-Martin Copy Share Image
“finding their alter ego in each other — rebellious and isolated, strong and erotic and gifted.” — Linda Wagner-Martin Copy Share Image
“I deserve a year, two years, to live my own self into being.” Depressing” — Linda Wagner-Martin Copy Share Image
“I need someone real, who will be right for me now, here, and soon. Until then I’m lost. I think I am mad at… — Linda Wagner-Martin Copy Share Image
“The Writer and Poet is excusable only if he is Successful. Makes Money.” Within” — Linda Wagner-Martin Copy Share Image
“I loved before I met him, a large, hulking, healthy Adam ... with a voice like the thunder of God — a singer, story-teller,… — Linda Wagner-Martin Copy Share Image
“She had come to think of the poet as song-maker, not as scholar with her head” — Linda Wagner-Martin Copy Share Image
