Appeals Quote by Dana Gioia Download Open image “Old empires always appeal to modern poets more than new ones.” — Dana Gioia ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Appeals Empires Empires Appeal Modern Modern Poets Old Empires Poet Poetry Poets New
“And yet it fills me with wonder, that, in almost all countries, the most ancient poets are considered as the best: whether it be… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The challenge is to keep up with all the new poets at the same time I love the old ones. — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Most poetry is very formal, but when a modern poet is formal he gets more attention for it than old poets did. — Robert Lowell Copy Share Image
The poets have familiarized more people with history than have the historians. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
“Contemporary poets got so obscure that poetry kind of fell out of favor,” — Paul Ruffin Copy Share Image
Twentieth-century American poetry has been one of the glories of modern literature. — Helen Vendler 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
Quotations can be valuable, like raisins in the rice pudding, for adding iron as well as eye appeal. — Peg Bracken Copy Share Image
If Robert Heinlein is more to your taste than George Lucas: “If you are part of a society that votes, then do so. There… — Kevin Drum Copy Share Image
All the cliches of glamorous sophistication have little appeal to me. Do I want to live the British version of 'Dynasty?' No thanks! — Sade Adu Copy Share Image
It's an appeal as old as America and its presidency: This is an extraordinary country populated by hard-working, big-dreaming, freedom-loving people graced by God… — Ron Fournier Copy Share Image
I liked wrestling a lot better than boxing. I remember thinking at that time that wrestling was a pure demonstration of strength, which I… — Scott Carpenter Copy Share Image
As a social and as a personal force, religion has become a dependent variable. It does not originate; it reacts. It does not denounce;… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
The ascent of any route begins, in dreams at least, the autumn before. Our minds ring, involuntarily, with the alluring names of mountains, aiguilles,… — Gaston Rebuffat Copy Share Image
I sometimes find that my family's emphasis on stories, characters, and art that appeals directly to children rather than over their heads to adults… — Mike Berenstain Copy Share Image
Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps. — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
In my early teens, science fiction and fantasy had an almost-total hold over my imagination. Their outcast status was part of their appeal. — Hari Kunzru Copy Share Image
The fact is that there is a profound spiritual hunger in the western world which, for a variety of reasons, its church is no… — Melanie Phillips Copy Share Image
People can talk about punk all they want, but after new wave put that down, metal is the voice of the disenfranchised and that… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
