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Dana Gioia quotes: The music that of common speech but slanted so that each detail sounds unexpected as a sharp inserted in a simple scale.

The music that of common speech but slanted so that each detail sounds unexpected as a sharp inserted in a simple scale.

Dana Gioia quotes: Old empires always appeal to modern poets more than new ones.

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

Dana Gioia quotes: The daylight needs no praise, and so we praise it always- greater than ourselves and all the airy words we summon.

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

Dana Gioia quotes: Poetry offers a way of understanding and expressing existence that is fundamentally different from conceptual thought.

Poetry offers a way of understanding and expressing existence that is fundamentally different from conceptual thought.

Dana Gioia quotes: And memory insists on piningFor places it never went,As if life would be happierJust by being different.

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

Dana Gioia quotes: Money. You don't know where it's been, but you put it where your mouth is. And it talks!

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

Dana Gioia quotes: This last mute touch that lingers is farewell.

This last mute touch that lingers is farewell.

Dana Gioia quotes: O Suburbs of Despairwhere nothing but the weather ever changes!

O Suburbs of Despair
where nothing but the weather ever changes!

Dana Gioia quotes: What we conceal Is always more than what we dare confide. Think of the letters that we write our dead.

What we conceal Is always more than what we dare confide. Think of the letters that we write our dead.

Dana Gioia quotes: Teach us the names of what we have destroyed.

Teach us the names of what we have destroyed.

Dana Gioia quotes: To speak from a particular place and time is not provincialism but part of a writer's identity.

To speak from a particular place and time is not provincialism but part of a writer's identity.

Dana Gioia quotes: Poetry is not a creed or dogma. It is a special way of speaking and listening.

Poetry is not a creed or dogma. It is a special way of speaking and listening.

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

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

Dana Gioia quotes: We are not as we were. Death has been our pentecost.

We are not as we were. Death has been our pentecost.

Dana Gioia quotes: Art is an irreplaceable way of understanding and expressing the world,

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