“Dante and Hopkins, Mozart and Palestrina, Michelangelo and El Greco, Bramante and Gaudi, have brought more souls to God than all the preachers of Texas”

—  Dana Gioia

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Essays, Can Poetry Matter? (1991), The Catholic Writer Today (2013)

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