The new year always brings us what we want Simply by bringing us along—to see A calendar with every day uncrossed, A field of snow without a single footprint. — Dana Gioia Copy Share Image
This is a prayer, inchoate and unfinished, for you, my love, my loss, my lesion, a rosary of words to count out time's illusions, all the minutes, hours, days the calendar compounds as if the past existed somewhere like an… — Dana Gioia Copy Share Image
How many voices have escaped you until now, the venting furnace, the floorboards underfoot, the steady accusations of the clock numbering the minutes no… — Dana Gioia Copy Share
In an age of global standardization, regional voices also remind both writer and reader that no life is lived generically. If the purpose of… — Dana Gioia Copy Share
“The daylight needs no praise, and so we praise it always- greater than ourselves and all the airy words we summon.” — Dana Gioia Copy Share
“And memory insists on pining For places it never went, As if life would be happier Just by being different.” — Dana Gioia Copy Share
“Whatever the reasons, reading somehow awakens something in a kid's life that makes them take their own life more seriously and other people's lives… — Dana Gioia Copy Share
“Breton considered suicide the truest art, though life seemed hardly worth the trouble to discard.” — Dana Gioia Copy Share
The new year always brings us what we want Simply by bringing us along—to see A calendar with every day uncrossed, A field of… — Dana Gioia Copy Share
Being so deeply rooted in one place and culture allows a genuine writer to experiment wildly with the material without ever losing touch with… — Dana Gioia Copy Share
Poetry speaks most effectively and inclusively (whether in free or formal verse) when it recognizes its connection - without apology - to its musical… — Dana Gioia Copy Share
It seems to me that awakening to the full potential of what your life might be - beyond the possibilities of your own family,… — Dana Gioia Copy Share
“There is no human society, however isolated, that has not developed and employed poetry as a cultural practice.” — Dana Gioia Copy Share
The purpose of arts education is not to produce more artists, though that is a byproduct. The real purpose of arts education is to… — Dana Gioia Copy Share
“What if we had walked a different path one day, would some small incident have nudged us elsewhere the way a pebble tossed into… — Dana Gioia Copy Share
Poetry offers a way of understanding and expressing existence that is fundamentally different from conceptual thought. — Dana Gioia Copy Share
Yet the stones remain less real to those who cannot name them, or read the mute syllables graven in silica. To see a red… — Dana Gioia Copy Share
