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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. — Dana Gioia

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

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

If I see something dubious, say on a blog or a Web site, and I don't see it anywhere else, I'll just go right to the source and check it out. — Al Michaels

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

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

I hate rarely, though when I hate, I hate murderously. — Anais Nin

Has it ever occurred to you that where there is no anger, there is also no love? — Siobhan Dowd

This last mute touch that lingers is farewell. — Dana Gioia

The frontier has gone, and with its going has closed the first period of American history. — Frederick Jackson Turner

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

she's teaching me to read to be blind sighted. — Peter Moore

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

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

I asked my dad what afflicted meant and he said 'Sickness son, and things that don't fit. — Frank McCourt

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

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

He paused by
Theo's door, knocked with his free hand.
"Get lost, creep."
David looked down at Maddy. "I assume he means you." He — Nora Roberts

On the environmental front there's concern about global warming and high levels of carbon dioxide, and trees take in CO2 and store carbon. — Clive Anderson

I love you, Dr. Taylor MacLay Bestman. Come with me through the years. Whatever God has in store, I want you by my side. — Cathy Marie Hake

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

Ah, Fist, it's the curse of history that those who should read them, never do. — Steven Erikson

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

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

Respect gods before demigods, heroes before men, and first among men your parents; but respect yourself most of all. — Pythagoras

To add more power to your light, don't fear the darkness of the night. — Debasish Mridha