To speak from a particular place and time is not provincialism but part of a writer’s identity.
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born 1950 United States
Michael Dana Gioia (born December 24, 1950) is an American poet and critic. He has been chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts since January 2003.
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Also known as: Gioia, Dana
34 quotes
Old empires always appeal to modern poets more than new ones.
The Gods of Winter (1991)
The Catholic Writer Today (2013)
"Teach us the names of what we have destroyed."
Interrogations at Noon (2001)
"The Catholic writer really needs only three things to succeed: faith, hope and ingenuity" (31).
The Catholic Writer Today (2013)
Money. You don't know where it's been,
but you put it where your mouth is.
And it talks.
The Gods of Winter (1991)
"It is time to renovate and reoccupy our own tradition" (35).
The Catholic Writer Today (2013)
“The writer needs good works—good literary ones” (33).
The Catholic Writer Today (2013)
We are not as we were. Death has been our pentecost.
Interrogations at Noon (2001)
The Catholic Writer Today (2013)
"Literature has many uses, not all of which occur in a classroom" (20).
Poetry as Enchantment (2015)
“Two great poets are stronger than two thousand mediocrities” (31).
The Catholic Writer Today (2013)
Interrogations at Noon (2001)
What we conceal
Is always more than what we dare confide.
Think of the letters that we write our dead.
Interrogations at Noon (2001)
“We necessarily bring the whole of our hairy and heavy humanity to worship” (29).
The Catholic Writer Today (2013)
The Catholic Writer Today (2013)
Poetry is not a creed or dogma. It is a special way of speaking and listening.
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Dana Gioia (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.