Quote by Linda Wagner-Martin

“My ribs show. What have I eaten? /Lies and smiles.”

— Linda Wagner-Martin

“feel on my tongue what I admire.” Despite”

— Linda Wagner-Martin

“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

“What was hard was discovering the true life of the poem inside its technical scaffolding.”

— Linda Wagner-Martin

“I deserve a year, two years, to live my own self into being.” Depressing”

— Linda Wagner-Martin

“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

“the misfits are the gifted.”

— Linda Wagner-Martin

“The Writer and Poet is excusable only if he is Successful. Makes Money.” Within”

— Linda Wagner-Martin

“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

“He is a breaker of things and people,”

— Linda Wagner-Martin

“She had come to think of the poet as song-maker, not as scholar with her head”

— Linda Wagner-Martin

“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…

— Linda Wagner-Martin