Poetry speaks most effectively and inclusively (whether in free or formal verse) when it recognizes its connection - … - Dana Gioia

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That's why our comics are important: they're pointing things out and laughing at the same time. There have been horrible, horrible times in history. They're mostly horrible times. But not to laugh? Not to find humor in something like dark optimism<br>bright pessimism - I think that's sad, frankly.

Dana Gioia

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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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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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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