"Peter Hyland's poems are both elegantly wrought and……" — Tony Hoagland
"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 dress, the mind of a grasshopper, or into the glass eyeballs of a buffalo head mounted on the wall of a home in suburban Texas to contemplate 'man's tireless ingenuity.'"
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10 Quotes by Tony Hoagland
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So much of what I love about poetry lies in the vast possibilities of voice, the spectacular range of idiosyncratic…
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We're all attracted to the perfume of fermenting joy, we've all tried to start a fire, and one day maybe…
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We would give anything for what we have.
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Often we ask ourselves to make absolute sense out of what just happens, and in this way, what we are…
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What I thought was an end turned out to be a middle. What I thought was a brick wall turned…
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There’s Socialism and Communism and Capitalism and there’s Feminism and Hedonism, and there’s Catholicism and Bipedalism and Consumerism, but I…
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Outside the youth center, between the liquor store and the police station, a little dogwood tree is losing its mind;…
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No matter how you feel you have to act like you are very popular with yourself; very relaxed and purposeful…
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When you're a student of poetry, you're lucky if you don't realize how untalented you are until you get a…
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The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the…
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Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.
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For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
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