We lived in places that we never knew. We could not name the birds perched on our sill, Or see the trees we cut down for our view. What we possessed we always chose to kill. "We claimed the earth… — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“And memory insists on pining For places it never went, As if life would be happier Just by being different.” — Dana Gioia Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“Breton considered suicide the truest art, though life seemed hardly worth the trouble to discard.” — Dana Gioia Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“There is no human society, however isolated, that has not developed and employed poetry as a cultural practice.” — Dana Gioia Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
Poetry offers a way of understanding and expressing existence that is fundamentally different from conceptual thought. — Dana Gioia Copy Share Image
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 Image
