"Peter Hyland's poems are both elegantly wrought and meditatively wild. They testify to an original, restless intelligence. He can cast his imagination into a woman's dress, the mind of a grasshopper, or into the glass eyeballs of a buffalo head mounted on the wall of a home in suburban Texas to contemplate 'man's tireless ingenuity.'"

-- Tony Hoagland

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“Something was dead in each of us, and what was dead was hope”
“The Americans expect great things of me ... If the small Czech nation can have such musicians, they say, why could not they, too, when their country and people is so immense.”

Source : Antonín Dvořák, Otakar Šourek (1954). “Antonín Dvořák: letters and reminiscences”, Da Capo Pr
“Sometimes the path you're on is not as important as the direction you're heading.”
“I get along with all the women singers, but especially Dolly Parton. We talk the same hillbilly language.”
“Perhaps it is a testament to the power of modern marketing savvy that an obese man with heart disease and high blood pressure became one of the richest snake oil salesmen ever to live, selling a diet that promises to help you lose weight, to keep your heart healthy and to normalize your blood pressure.”
“To the people here, we are outsiders. Foreigners.”
“You modern men, you children of reason, cannot begin to appreciate love as pure bliss and divine serenity.”

Source : Gilles Deleuze, Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch (1971). “Masochism”, Zone Books (NY)
“I think zombies have always been an easy metaphor for hard times. Because they're this big, faceless, brainless group of evil things that will work tirelessly to destroy you and think of nothing else.”

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