Poetry Quote by Tony Hoagland — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Outside the youth center, between the liquor store”

“Venus Transiens”

“Every poem is a coat of arms. It must be deciphered. How much blood, how many tears in exchange for these axes, these muzzles, these unicorns, these torches, these towers, these martlets, these seedlings of stars and these fields of blue!”

“Maybe if I could slip into Sylvia's mind, sort out the spices in her rack, alphabetize them and dust them off. Maybe then I'd understand how it's the little things that pull you under.”

“This week”

“Souls grow on bones but die beneath bankers' hours...”

“And so sepúlchred in such pomp dost lie,”