How many voices have escaped you until now, the venting furnace, the floorboards underfoot, the steady accusations of the clock numbering the… — Dana Gioia Accusation 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… — Dana Gioia Age 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 Life 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… — Dana Gioia Life Copy Share Image
“Breton considered suicide the truest art, though life seemed hardly worth the trouble to discard.” — Dana Gioia Art 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… — Dana Gioia Calendars 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… — Dana Gioia Culture Copy Share Image
Poetry speaks most effectively and inclusively (whether in free or formal verse) when it recognizes its connection - without apology - to… — Dana Gioia Apology Copy Share Image
It seems to me that awakening to the full potential of what your life might be - beyond the possibilities of your… — Dana Gioia Art Copy Share Image
“There is no human society, however isolated, that has not developed and employed poetry as a cultural practice.” — Dana Gioia Culture 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… — Dana Gioia Art 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… — Dana Gioia Different path Copy Share Image
Poetry offers a way of understanding and expressing existence that is fundamentally different from conceptual thought. — Dana Gioia Art 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… — Dana Gioia Cousin Copy Share Image
“The great potential of Christian literature [is] to depict the material world, the physical world of the senses, while also revealing behind… — Dana Gioia Books 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… — Dana Gioia Calendars Copy Share Image
Art is an irreplaceable way of understanding and expressing the world, — Dana Gioia Art Copy Share Image
Everyone enjoys stories of double lives and secret identities. Children have Superman; intellectuals have Wallace Stevens. — Dana Gioia Children Copy Share Image
My blessed California, you are so wise. You render death abstract, efficient, clean. Your afterlife is only real estate, And in his… — Dana Gioia Abstract Copy Share Image
Even if great poetry continues to be written, it has retreated from the center of literary life. Though supported by a loyal… — Dana Gioia Culture Copy Share Image
Current Catholic worship often ignores the essential connection between truth and beauty, body and soul, at the center of the Catholic worldview.… — Dana Gioia Being faithful Copy Share Image
The music that of common speech but slanted so that each detail sounds unexpected as a sharp inserted in a simple scale. — Dana Gioia Common Copy Share Image
