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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

Before taking an analytical approach, you should immerse yourself in the sheer visceral intensity of these performances, which capture the ethos of — Ted Gioia

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

It is possible to make people contented with their servitude. You can provide them with endless amounts of distraction and propaganda. — Huxley Aldous 1894-1963

Sometimes it's not what you say, Valkyrie, it's just the fact that you're saying it. — Derek Landy

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

His own cabinat of cuoriositie — James Rollins

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

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

Are you taking my hat hostage? — Derek Landy

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

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

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

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

Sometimes when it looks like I'm deep in thought I'm just trying not to have a conversation with people. — Pete Wentz

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

Magic is the science of the jungle. — Carl Jung

Jazz at this time is still mostly a group effort. — Ted Gioia

[From Old Mortality]
The woman in the picture ... was only a ghost in a frame, and a sad, pretty story from old times. — Katherine Anne Porter

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

I never understood why people use words they do not understand. — Sylvain Neuvel

..there was a moment when the living room vanished and I saw a great, mushroom-shaped cloud rising into a blue sky. I saw it quite distinctly. — Masuji Ibuse

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

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

what we choose to focus on and what we choose to ignore - plays in defining the quality of our life. — Cal Newport

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

Most of them seem to want the whole thing to just go away so they can get on with their research. — James S.A. Corey