There are some truths about life that can be expressed only as stories, or songs, or images. Art delights, instructs, consoles. It educates our emoti…

- Dana Gioia

Teach us the names of what we have destroyed.

- Dana Gioia

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

- Dana Gioia

Twisting through the thorn-thick underbrush, scratched and exhausted, one turns suddenly to find an unexpected waterfall, not half a mile from the ne…

- Dana Gioia

It seems to me that awakening to the full potential of what your life might be - beyond the possibilities of your own family, your own class, your ow…

- Dana Gioia

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

- Dana Gioia

Once an author finishes a poem, he becomes merely another reader. I may remember what I intended to put into a text, but what matters is what a reade…

- Dana Gioia

In an age of global standardization, regional voices also remind both writer and reader that no life is lived generically. If the purpose of literatu…

- Dana Gioia

This is a prayer, inchoate and unfinished, for you, my love, my loss, my lesion, a rosary of words to count out time's illusions, all the minutes, ho…

- Dana Gioia