Poetry as Enchantment Quotes

“Poetry simultaneously addresses our intellect and our physical senses, our emotions, imagination, intuition, and memory without asking us to divide them.”
― Dana Gioia, Poetry as Enchantment

“Most editors run poems and poetry reviews the way a prosperous Montana rancher might keep a few buffalo around—not to eat the endangered creatures but to display them for tradition's sake.”
― Dana Gioia, Poetry as Enchantment

“The purpose of literary education is not to produce more professors; its goal is to develop capable and complete human beings.”
― Dana Gioia, Poetry as Enchantment

“Like song or dance, poetry needs to be experienced in performance before it can be fully understood.”
― Dana Gioia, Poetry as Enchantment

“For thousands of years, poetry was taught badly, and consequently it was immensely popular.”
― Dana Gioia, Poetry as Enchantment

“Poetry recognizes the mysterious relationship between dream and reality.”
― Dana Gioia, Poetry as Enchantment

“Poetry compellingly communicates feelings that lie beyond or beneath rational discourse.”
― Dana Gioia, Poetry as Enchantment

“Poetry originated as a form of vocal music.”
― Dana Gioia, Poetry as Enchantment

“There is no human society, however isolated, that has not developed and employed poetry as a cultural practice.”
― Dana Gioia, Poetry as Enchantment

“Poetry is a universal human art.”
― Dana Gioia, Poetry as Enchantment

“Verse was humanity's first memory and broadcast technology—a technology originally transmitted only by the human body.”
― Dana Gioia, Poetry as Enchantment