All Tony Hoagland Quotes
- So much of what I love about poetry lies in the vast possibilities of voice, the spectacular range of idiosyncratic flavors that can be embedded… Alive
- We're all attracted to the perfume of fermenting joy, we've all tried to start a fire, and one day maybe it will blaze up on… Able
- We would give anything for what we have. Funny
- Peter Hyland's poems are both elegantly wrought and meditatively wild. They testify to an original, restless intelligence. He can cast his imagination into a woman's… Both
- Often we ask ourselves to make absolute sense out of what just happens, and in this way, what we are practicing is suffering, which everybody… Absolute
- What I thought was an end turned out to be a middle. What I thought was a brick wall turned out to be a tunnel.… Brick
- There’s Socialism and Communism and Capitalism and there’s Feminism and Hedonism, and there’s Catholicism and Bipedalism and Consumerism, but I think Narcissism is the system… Bipedalism
- Outside the youth center, between the liquor store and the police station, a little dogwood tree is losing its mind; overflowing with blossomfoam, like a… All
- No matter how you feel you have to act like you are very popular with yourself; very relaxed and purposeful very unconfused and not like… Act
- When you're a student of poetry, you're lucky if you don't realize how untalented you are until you get a little better. Otherwise, you would… Better