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Dana Gioia, born on December 24, 1950, is an accomplished American poet known for his profound emotions and rich imagination in his works.

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“As a class poets are not without cultural status. Like priests in a town of agnostics, they still command a certain residual prestige. But as individual artists they are almost invisible.”

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Book:Can Poetry Matter?: Essays on Poetry and American Culture

Source: Can Poetry Matter?: Essays on Poetry and American Culture

“Today poetry is a modestly upwardly mobile, middle-class profession—not as lucrative as waste management or dermatology but several big steps above the squalor of bohemia.”

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Book:Can Poetry Matter?: Essays on Poetry and American Culture

Source: Can Poetry Matter?: Essays on Poetry and American Culture

“There is more rejoicing in heaven over one lost poet found than in 99 novelists who have never strayed.”

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Book:Can Poetry Matter?: Essays on Poetry and American Culture

Source: Can Poetry Matter?: Essays on Poetry and American Culture

“Two great poets are stronger than two thousand mediocrities.”

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Book:The Catholic Writer Today: And Other Essays

Source: The Catholic Writer Today: And Other Essays

About the Author

Born: December 24, 1950
Known for: Poet
Quotes: 58

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Books & Sources

99 Poems: New & SelectedRelated source material

The Catholic Writer Today: And Other EssaysRelated source material

Can Poetry Matter?: Essays on Poetry and American CultureRelated source material

Poetry as EnchantmentRelated source material

Barrier of a common language: an American looks at contemporary British poetryRelated source material

Daily Horoscope: PoemsRelated source material

Interrogations at Noon: PoemsRelated source material

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