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# Dana Gioia

(1950)   Poet   United States

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Dana Gioia is a poet from the United States, best known for *Literature*.

## Quick Facts About Dana Gioia

Born December 24, 1950

Nationality United States

Profession Poet

Notable works Literature

## About Dana Gioia

Michael Dana Gioia is an American poet, literary critic, literary translator, and essayist.

## Awards & Honors

American Book Awards Presidential Citizens Medal Laetare Medal

##  Quotes by Dana Gioia

> [Poetry is not a creed or dogma. It is a special way of speaking and listening.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dana-gioia/poetry-is-not-a-creed-or-dogma-it-is-a-special-way-of-speaking-and/)

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[Communication](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/communication/)

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> [“O Suburbs of Despair where nothing but the weather ever changes!”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dana-gioia/o-suburbs-of-despair-where-nothing-but-the-weather-ever-changes/)

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[Despair](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/despair/)

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> [Old empires always appeal to modern poets more than new ones.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dana-gioia/old-empires-always-appeal-to-modern-poets-more-than-new-ones/)

[Dana Gioia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dana-gioia/)

[Appeals](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/appeals/)

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> [We are not as we were. Death has been our pentecost.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dana-gioia/we-are-not-as-we-were-death-has-been-our-pentecost/)

[Dana Gioia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dana-gioia/)

[Death](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/death/)

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> [“This last mute touch that lingers is farewell.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dana-gioia/this-last-mute-touch-that-lingers-is-farewell/)

[Dana Gioia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dana-gioia/)

[Farewell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/farewell/)

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> [“This is the feast of our mortality, the most mundane and human holiday.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dana-gioia/this-is-the-feast-of-our-mortality-the-most-mundane-and-human-holiday/)

[Dana Gioia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dana-gioia/)

[Death](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/death/)

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> [“I attended Catholic schools at a time when Latin was still a living ritual language.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dana-gioia/i-attended-catholic-schools-at-a-time-when-latin-was-still-a-living/)

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[Catholic schools](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/catholic-schools/)

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> [Teach us the names of what we have destroyed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dana-gioia/teach-us-the-names-of-what-we-have-destroyed/)

[Dana Gioia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dana-gioia/)

[Destroyed](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/destroyed/)

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> [“Whatever the reasons, reading somehow awakens something in a kid's life that makes them take their own life more seriously and other…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dana-gioia/whatever-the-reasons-reading-somehow-awakens-something-in-a-kid-s/)

[Dana Gioia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dana-gioia/)

[Life](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/life/)

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> [What we conceal Is always more than what we dare confide. Think of the letters that we write our dead.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dana-gioia/what-we-conceal-is-always-more-than-what-we-dare-confide-think-of-the/)

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[Conceal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/conceal/)

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> [Poetry speaks most effectively and inclusively (whether in free or formal verse) when it recognizes its connection - without apology - to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dana-gioia/poetry-speaks-most-effectively-and-inclusively-whether-in-free-or/)

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[Apology](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/apology/)

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> [“The daylight needs no praise, and so we praise it always- greater than ourselves and all the airy words we summon.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dana-gioia/the-daylight-needs-no-praise-and-so-we-praise-it-always-greater-than/)

[Dana Gioia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dana-gioia/)

[Daylight](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/daylight/)

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> [“Dali dreamed of Hitler as a white-skinned girl- impossibly pale, luminous and lifeless as the moon.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dana-gioia/dali-dreamed-of-hitler-as-a-white-skinned-girl-impossibly-pale/)

[Dana Gioia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dana-gioia/)

[Dali](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dali/)

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> [The music that of common speech but slanted so that each detail sounds unexpected as a sharp inserted in a simple scale.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dana-gioia/the-music-that-of-common-speech-but-slanted-so-that-each-detail/)

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[Common](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/common/)

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> [Everyone enjoys stories of double lives and secret identities. Children have Superman; intellectuals have Wallace Stevens.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dana-gioia/everyone-enjoys-stories-of-double-lives-and-secret-identities/)

[Dana Gioia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dana-gioia/)

[Children](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/children/)

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> [“Bells and incense!” scoffs the Puritan, but God gave people ears and noses. Are those organs of perception too humble to bring…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dana-gioia/bells-and-incense-scoffs-the-puritan-but-god-gave-people-ears-and/)

[Dana Gioia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dana-gioia/)

[Catholic](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/catholic/)

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> [This is a prayer, inchoate and unfinished, for you, my love, my loss, my lesion, a rosary of words to count out…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dana-gioia/this-is-a-prayer-inchoate-and-unfinished-for-you-my-love-my-loss-my/)

[Dana Gioia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dana-gioia/)

[Calendars](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/calendars/)

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> [Current Catholic worship often ignores the essential connection between truth and beauty, body and soul, at the center of the Catholic worldview.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dana-gioia/current-catholic-worship-often-ignores-the-essential-connection/)

[Dana Gioia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dana-gioia/)

[Being faithful](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/being-faithful/)

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> [Paradoxically, the simpler poetry is, the more difficult it becomes for a critic to discuss intelligently. Trained to explicate, the critic often…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dana-gioia/paradoxically-the-simpler-poetry-is-the-more-difficult-it-becomes-for/)

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[Ability](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ability/)

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> [Yet the stones remain less real to those who cannot name them, or read the mute syllables graven in silica. To see…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dana-gioia/yet-the-stones-remain-less-real-to-those-who-cannot-name-them-or-read/)

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[Cousin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/cousin/)

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> [It seems to me that awakening to the full potential of what your life might be - beyond the possibilities of your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dana-gioia/it-seems-to-me-that-awakening-to-the-full-potential-of-what-your-life/)

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[Art](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/art/)

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> [ “The great potential of Christian literature \[is\] to depict the material world, the physical world of the senses, while also revealing behind… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dana-gioia/the-great-potential-of-christian-literature-is-to-depict-the-material/)

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[Books](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/books/)

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> [In an age of global standardization, regional voices also remind both writer and reader that no life is lived generically. If the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dana-gioia/in-an-age-of-global-standardization-regional-voices-also-remind-both/)

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[Age](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/age/)

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> [How many voices have escaped you until now, the venting furnace, the floorboards underfoot, the steady accusations of the clock numbering the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dana-gioia/how-many-voices-have-escaped-you-until-now-the-venting-furnace-the/)

[Dana Gioia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dana-gioia/)

[Accusation](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/accusation/)

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> [Art is an irreplaceable way of understanding and expressing the world,](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dana-gioia/art-is-an-irreplaceable-way-of-understanding-and-expressing-the-world/)

[Dana Gioia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dana-gioia/)

[Art](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/art/)

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> [“Poetry originated as a form of vocal music.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dana-gioia/poetry-originated-as-a-form-of-vocal-music/)

[Dana Gioia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dana-gioia/)

[Music](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/music/)

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> [Money. You don't know where it's been, but you put it where your mouth is. And it talks!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dana-gioia/money-you-don-t-know-where-it-s-been-but-you-put-it-where-your-mouth/)

[Dana Gioia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dana-gioia/)

[Funny](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/funny/)

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> [Being so deeply rooted in one place and culture allows a genuine writer to experiment wildly with the material without ever losing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dana-gioia/being-so-deeply-rooted-in-one-place-and-culture-allows-a-genuine/)

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[Culture](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/culture/)

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> [Poetry offers a way of understanding and expressing existence that is fundamentally different from conceptual thought.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dana-gioia/poetry-offers-a-way-of-understanding-and-expressing-existence-that-is/)

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[Art](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/art/)

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> [In America, the term younger poet is applied with chivalric liberality. It can be used to describe anyone not yet collecting a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dana-gioia/in-america-the-term-younger-poet-is-applied-with-chivalric-liberality/)

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[America](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/america/)

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> [We offer you the landscape of your birth -- Exquisite and despoiled. We all share blame. We cannot ask forgiveness of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dana-gioia/we-offer-you-the-landscape-of-your-birth-exquisite-and-despoiled-we/)

[Dana Gioia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dana-gioia/)

[Asking for forgiveness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/asking-for-forgiveness/)

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> [To speak from a particular place and time is not provincialism but part of a writer's identity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dana-gioia/to-speak-from-a-particular-place-and-time-is-not-provincialism-but/)

[Dana Gioia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dana-gioia/)

[Identity](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/identity/)

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> [“There is no human society, however isolated, that has not developed and employed poetry as a cultural practice.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dana-gioia/there-is-no-human-society-however-isolated-that-has-not-developed-and/)

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[Culture](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/culture/)

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> [My blessed California, you are so wise. You render death abstract, efficient, clean. Your afterlife is only real estate, And in his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dana-gioia/my-blessed-california-you-are-so-wise-you-render-death-abstract/)

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[Abstract](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/abstract/)

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> [There are some truths about life that can be expressed only as stories, or songs, or images. Art delights, instructs, consoles. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dana-gioia/there-are-some-truths-about-life-that-can-be-expressed-only-as/)

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[Art](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/art/)

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> [“Breton considered suicide the truest art, though life seemed hardly worth the trouble to discard.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dana-gioia/breton-considered-suicide-the-truest-art-though-life-seemed-hardly/)

[Dana Gioia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dana-gioia/)

[Art](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/art/)

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> [“In the evening when the light is dim, I hide in bed and collect the silhouettes of reasoning which silently run across…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dana-gioia/in-the-evening-when-the-light-is-dim-i-hide-in-bed-and-collect-the/)

[Dana Gioia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dana-gioia/)

[Evening light](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/evening-light/)

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> [“And memory insists on pining For places it never went, As if life would be happier Just by being different.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dana-gioia/and-memory-insists-on-pining-for-places-it-never-went-as-if-life/)

[Dana Gioia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dana-gioia/)

[Life](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/life/)

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> [The new year always brings us what we want Simply by bringing us along—to see A calendar with every day uncrossed, A…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dana-gioia/the-new-year-always-brings-us-what-we-want-simply-by-bringing-us/)

[Dana Gioia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dana-gioia/)

[Calendars](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/calendars/)

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> [Twisting through the thorn-thick underbrush, scratched and exhausted, one turns suddenly to find an unexpected waterfall, not half a mile from the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dana-gioia/twisting-through-the-thorn-thick-underbrush-scratched-and-exhausted/)

[Dana Gioia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dana-gioia/)

[Dragonflies](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dragonflies/)

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## Dana Gioia by topic

[Poetry (11)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/poetry/dana-gioia/)

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