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Top 15 Tony Hoagland Quotes (2025 Update)

Tony Hoagland Quote: “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.”

1. “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.”

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Tony Hoagland Quote: “We would give anything for what we have.”

2. “We would give anything for what we have.”

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Tony Hoagland Quote: “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.”

3. “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.”

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Tony Hoagland Quote: “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.”

4. “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.”

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Tony Hoagland Quote: “And I am too knowledgeable now to hurt people imprecisely.”

5. “And I am too knowledgeable now to hurt people imprecisely.”

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Tony Hoagland Quote: “There’s Socialism and Communism and Capitalism and there’s Feminism and Hedonism, and there’s Catholicism and Bipedalism and Consumerism, but I think Narcissism is the system that means the most to me.”

6. “There’s Socialism and Communism and Capitalism and there’s Feminism and Hedonism, and there’s Catholicism and Bipedalism and Consumerism, but I think Narcissism is the system that means the most to me.”

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Tony Hoagland Quote: “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, she is the one today among us most able to bear the idea of her own beauty...”

7. “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, she is the one today among us most able to bear the idea of her own beauty...”

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Tony Hoagland Quote: “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.”

8. “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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Tony Hoagland Quote: “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 earliest markers of the poetic spirit, the nascent poet.”

9. “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 earliest markers of the poetic spirit, the nascent poet.”

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Tony Hoagland Quote: “These poems possess intelligence, erudition, gravitas and urgency. Serious and moving in voice and ambition, this passionately lyrical and articulate work reminds me very much of the capacious, fierce and intelligent work of Adrienne Rich.”

10. “These poems possess intelligence, erudition, gravitas and urgency. Serious and moving in voice and ambition, this passionately lyrical and articulate work reminds me very much of the capacious, fierce and intelligent work of Adrienne Rich.”

— Tony Hoagland

Tony Hoagland Quote: “The most prevalent poetic representation of contemporary experience is the mimesis of disorientation by non sequitor.”

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

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Tony Hoagland Quote: “Why did it take me so long to figure out that my special talent was trying?”

12. “Why did it take me so long to figure out that my special talent was trying?”

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Tony Hoagland Quote: “Who would have imagined that I would have to go a million miles away from the place where I was born to find the people who love me? And that I would go that distance and that I would find those people?”

13. “Who would have imagined that I would have to go a million miles away from the place where I was born to find the people who love me? And that I would go that distance and that I would find those people?”

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Tony Hoagland Quote: “Poems build our capacity for imaginative thinking, create a tolerance for ambiguity, and foster an appreciation for the role of the unknown in human life.”

14. “Poems build our capacity for imaginative thinking, create a tolerance for ambiguity, and foster an appreciation for the role of the unknown in human life.”

— Tony Hoagland

Tony Hoagland Quote: “For all I know, maybe everyone is screaming as they go through life, silently.”

15. “For all I know, maybe everyone is screaming as they go through life, silently.”

— Tony Hoagland

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