There’s Socialism and Communism and Capitalism and there’s Feminism and Hedonism, and there’s Catholicism and Bipedalism and Consumerism, but I think…

- Tony Hoagland

We would give anything for what we have.

- Tony Hoagland

We're all attracted to the perfume of fermenting joy, we've all tried to start a fire, and one day maybe it will blaze up on its own. In the meantime…

- Tony Hoagland

The nobility of Teresa Leo's poems is that they are not disposed to hide from the dark-rather, they display a mind that tends toward obsession and br…

- Tony Hoagland

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 turne…

- 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…

- 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 st…

- Tony Hoagland

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

- Tony Hoagland

What we know for sure is that metaphor is the raw uranium of poetry, and that an urge to say that one thing is like something else is one of the earl…

- Tony Hoagland