Application for Release from the Dream Quotes

“So I’ve grown up to be one of those people who gets angry at trees for behaving like trees,”
― Tony Hoagland, Application for Release from the Dream: Poems

“Taking the car out of the rental parking lot, almost getting fender-bendered by the guy in the BMW speaking capitalist Cro-Magnon into his cell phone; wondering whether the time has come to get a gun; already starting to look forward to my lethal injection—”
― Tony Hoagland, Application for Release from the Dream: Poems

“That and the Southern accent of the flight announcers, with their colorful speech impediments of moonshine and molasses.”
― Tony Hoagland, Application for Release from the Dream: Poems

“This hour of the evening
with a little infinity inside,
like an amnesty from the interminable
condition of being oneself.”
― Tony Hoagland, Application for Release from the Dream