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Top 20 Dana Gioia Quotes (2025 Update)

Dana Gioia Quote: “The purpose of arts education is not to produce more artists, though that is a byproduct. The real purpose of arts education is to create complete human beings capable of leading successful and productive lives in a free society.”

1. “The purpose of arts education is not to produce more artists, though that is a byproduct. The real purpose of arts education is to create complete human beings capable of leading successful and productive lives in a free society.”

Dana Gioia Quote: “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 own race, your own neighborhood – that is one of the great gifts that art affords.”

2. “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 own race, your own neighborhood – that is one of the great gifts that art affords.”

Dana Gioia Quote: “Money. You don’t know where it’s been, but you put it where your mouth is. And it talks!”

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

Dana Gioia Quote: “How many voices have escaped you until now, the venting furnace, the floorboards underfoot, the steady accusations of the clock numbering the minutes no one will mark. The terrible clarity this moment brings, the useless insight, the unbroken dark.”

4. “How many voices have escaped you until now, the venting furnace, the floorboards underfoot, the steady accusations of the clock numbering the minutes no one will mark. The terrible clarity this moment brings, the useless insight, the unbroken dark.”

Dana Gioia Quote: “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, hours, days the calendar compounds as if the past existed somewhere like an inheritance still waiting to be claimed.”

5. “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, hours, days the calendar compounds as if the past existed somewhere like an inheritance still waiting to be claimed.”

Dana Gioia Quote: “Yet the stones remain less real to those who cannot name them, or read the mute syllables graven in silica. To see a red stone is less than seeing it as jasper metamorphic quartz, cousin to the flint the Kiowa carved as arrowheads. To name is to know and remember.”

6. “Yet the stones remain less real to those who cannot name them, or read the mute syllables graven in silica. To see a red stone is less than seeing it as jasper metamorphic quartz, cousin to the flint the Kiowa carved as arrowheads. To name is to know and remember.”

Dana Gioia Quote: “There are some truths about life that can be expressed only as stories, or songs, or images. Art delights, instructs, consoles. It educates our emotions.”

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

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

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

Dana Gioia Quote: “Everyone enjoys stories of double lives and secret identities. Children have Superman; intellectuals have Wallace Stevens.”

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

Dana Gioia Quote: “Even if great poetry continues to be written, it has retreated from the center of literary life. Though supported by a loyal coterie, poetry has lost the confidence that it speaks to and for the general culture.”

10. “Even if great poetry continues to be written, it has retreated from the center of literary life. Though supported by a loyal coterie, poetry has lost the confidence that it speaks to and for the general culture.”

Dana Gioia Quote: “The music that of common speech but slanted so that each detail sounds unexpected as a sharp inserted in a simple scale.”

11. “The music that of common speech but slanted so that each detail sounds unexpected as a sharp inserted in a simple scale.”

Dana Gioia Quote: “Being so deeply rooted in one place and culture allows a genuine writer to experiment wildly with the material without ever losing touch with its essence.”

12. “Being so deeply rooted in one place and culture allows a genuine writer to experiment wildly with the material without ever losing touch with its essence.”

Dana Gioia Quote: “Poetry offers a way of understanding and expressing existence that is fundamentally different from conceptual thought.”

13. “Poetry offers a way of understanding and expressing existence that is fundamentally different from conceptual thought.”

Dana Gioia Quote: “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 reader actually finds there which is usually something both more and less than the poet planned.”

14. “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 reader actually finds there which is usually something both more and less than the poet planned.”

Dana Gioia Quote: “We are not as we were. Death has been our pentecost.”

15. “We are not as we were. Death has been our pentecost.”

Dana Gioia Quote: “I attended Catholic schools at a time when Latin was still a living ritual language.”

16. “I attended Catholic schools at a time when Latin was still a living ritual language.”

Dana Gioia Quote: “In America, the term younger poet is applied with chivalric liberality. It can be used to describe anyone not yet collecting a Social Security pension.”

17. “In America, the term younger poet is applied with chivalric liberality. It can be used to describe anyone not yet collecting a Social Security pension.”

Dana Gioia Quote: “Poetry is not a creed or dogma. It is a special way of speaking and listening.”

18. “Poetry is not a creed or dogma. It is a special way of speaking and listening.”

Dana Gioia Quote: “Old empires always appeal to modern poets more than new ones.”

19. “Old empires always appeal to modern poets more than new ones.”

Dana Gioia Quote: “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.”

20. “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.”

Dana Gioia Quote: “Teach us the names of what we have destroyed.”

21. “Teach us the names of what we have destroyed.”

Dana Gioia Quote: “To speak from a particular place and time is not provincialism but part of a writer’s identity.”

22. “To speak from a particular place and time is not provincialism but part of a writer’s identity.”

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