"When you're a student of poetry, you're lucky……" — Tony Hoagland
"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 just stop."
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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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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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