Quotes by Dana Gioia

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Art is an irreplaceable way of understanding and expressing the world.

Art

Understanding

World

Being so deeply rooted in one place and culture allows a genuine writer to experiment wildly with the material without ever losing touch with its essence.

Culture

Essence

Losing

Everyone enjoys stories of double lives and secret identities. Children have Superman; intellectuals have Wallace Stevens.

Children

Secret Identity

Stories

In America, the term younger poet is applied with chivalric liberality. It can be used to describe anyone not yet collecting a Social Security pension.

America

Poet

Social

In an age of global standardization, regional voices also remind both writer and reader that no life is lived generically. If the purpose of literature is truly, as the ancients insisted, to instruct and delight, then what better to understand and enjoy than the here and the now?

Age

Purpose

Voice

Money. You don’t know where it’s been, but you put it where your mouth is. And it talks!

Knows

Mouths

My blessed California, you are so wise. You render death abstract, efficient, clean. Your afterlife is only real estate, And in his kingdom Death must stay unseen.

Blessed

Real

Wise

Old empires always appeal to modern poets more than new ones.

Empires

Modern

Poet

Once an author finishes a poem, he becomes merely another reader. I may remember what I intended to put into a text, but what matters is what a reader actually finds there which is usually something both more and less than the poet planned.

May

Remember

What Matters

Paradoxically, the simpler poetry is, the more difficult it becomes for a critic to discuss intelligently. Trained to explicate, the critic often loses the ability to evaluate literature outside the critical act. A work is good only in proportion to the richness and complexity of interpretations it provokes.

Interpretation

Literature

Proportion

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Children

Cousin

Culture

Cutting

Earth

Empires

Essence

Identity

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Knows

Landscape

Letters

Listening

Literature

Losing

May

Modern

Mouths

Names

New Year

Particular

Poet

Poetry

Proportion

Purpose

Real

Remember

Secret Identity

Snow

Social

Song

Speak

Special

Stories

Successful

Thinking

Understanding

Views

Voice

Way

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World

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Quotes by Dana Gioia

Dana Gioia

Art is an irreplaceable way of understanding and expressing the world.

Being so deeply rooted in one place and culture allows a genuine writer to experiment wildly with the material without ever losing touch with its essence.

Everyone enjoys stories of double lives and secret identities. Children have Superman; intellectuals have Wallace Stevens.

In America, the term younger poet is applied with chivalric liberality. It can be used to describe anyone not yet collecting a Social Security pension.

In an age of global standardization, regional voices also remind both writer and reader that no life is lived generically. If the purpose of literature is truly, as the ancients insisted, to instruct and delight, then what better to understand and enjoy than the here and the now?

Money. You don’t know where it’s been, but you put it where your mouth is. And it talks!

My blessed California, you are so wise. You render death abstract, efficient, clean. Your afterlife is only real estate, And in his kingdom Death must stay unseen.

Old empires always appeal to modern poets more than new ones.

Once an author finishes a poem, he becomes merely another reader. I may remember what I intended to put into a text, but what matters is what a reader actually finds there which is usually something both more and less than the poet planned.

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