Holy ghost Quote by tony hoagland

“Until we say the truth, there can be no tenderness. As long as there is desire, we will not be safe”

— Tony Hoagland

We would give anything for what we have.

— Tony Hoagland

These poems possess intelligence, erudition, gravitas and urgency. Serious and moving in voice and ambition, this passionately lyrical and articulate work reminds me very…

— Tony Hoagland

“So the avenues we walk down, full of bodies wearing faces, are full of hidden talent: enough to make pianos moan, sidewalks split, streetlights…

— Tony Hoagland

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…

— Tony Hoagland

So much of what I love about poetry lies in the vast possibilities of voice, the spectacular range of idiosyncratic flavors that can be…

— Tony Hoagland

“There isn’t a word for walking out of the grocery store with a gallon jug of milk in a plastic sack that should have…

— Tony Hoagland

“the glory of the protagonist is always paid for by a lot of secondary characters”

— Tony Hoagland

“Because if marriage is a kind of womb, divorce is the being born again.”

— Tony Hoagland

“I know there are some people out there who think I am supposed to end up in a room by myself with a gun…

— Tony Hoagland

No matter how you feel you have to act like you are very popular with yourself; very relaxed and purposeful very unconfused and not…

— Tony Hoagland

And I am too knowledgeable now to hurt people imprecisely

— Tony Hoagland