"So much of what I love about poetry……" — 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 embedded in a particular human voice reporting from the field. One beautiful axis of voice is the one that runs between vulnerability and detachment, between 'It hurts to be alive' and 'I can see a million miles from here.' A good poetic voice can do both at once."
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10 Quotes by Tony Hoagland
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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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Peter Hyland's poems are both elegantly wrought and meditatively wild. They testify to an original, restless intelligence. He can cast…
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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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