Art Quote by Dana Gioia

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

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

“The daylight needs no praise, and so we praise it always- greater than ourselves and all the airy words we summon.”

— Dana Gioia

“And memory insists on pining For places it never went, As if life would be happier Just by being different.”

— Dana Gioia

“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

“Breton considered suicide the truest art, though life seemed hardly worth the trouble to discard.”

— Dana Gioia

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

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

Poetry speaks most effectively and inclusively (whether in free or formal verse) when it recognizes its connection - without apology - to its musical…

— Dana Gioia

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

“There is no human society, however isolated, that has not developed and employed poetry as a cultural practice.”

— Dana Gioia

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