52 Quotes by Dana Gioia

Hathwell is writing with quiet intensity about significant things.

The world does not need words. It articulates itselfin sunlight, leaves, and shadows. The stones on the pathare no less real for lying uncatalogued and uncounted.The fluent leaves speak only the dialect of pure being.

O Suburbs of Despairwhere nothing but the weather ever changes!

Through Great American Voices, the NEA is building bridges between the military and arts community, ... This tour gives singers a chance to perform for new audiences and brings great music in live performance to military families.

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

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

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

We lived in places that we never knew. We could not name the birds perched on our sill, Or see the trees we cut down for our view. What we possessed we always chose to kill. "We claimed the earth but did not hear her claim, And when we died, they laid us on her breast, But she refuses us until we earn Forgiveness from the lives we dispossessed.

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.