We offer you the landscape of your birth -- Exquisite and despoiled. We all share blame. We cannot … - Dana Gioia

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Exactly what the fairy tale does is this: it accustoms [the child] to the idea that these limitless terrors had a limit, that these shapeless enemies have enemies in the knights of God, that there is something in the universe more mystical than darkness, and stronger than strong fear.

Dana Gioia

We offer you the landscape of your birth -- Exquisite and despoiled. We all share blame. We cannot ask forgiveness of the earth For killing what we cannot even name.

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Poetry speaks most effectively and inclusively (whether in free or formal verse) when it recognizes its connection - without apology - to its musical and ritualistic origins.

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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.

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

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

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

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