Tony Hoagland Quotes

We would give anything for what we have.

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.

The most prevalent poetic representation of contemporary experience is the mimesis of disorientation by non sequitor.

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. What I thought was an injustice turned out to be a color of the sky.

And I am too knowledgeable now to hurt people imprecisely

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 practices, but strangely few of us grow graceful in.

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 you are walking through the sunshine singing in chains.

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

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