I am large, I contain multitudes.
Dana Gioia
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I have to say that Grieg's relationship to Kees' property is problematic. Michael Grieg told me that Kees' parents said he could keep all the paintings, and things like that. I have no way of verifying that claim. Grieg did end up owning all the paintings, pictures, which he then began selling,.. It took me years to convince him to let me see what he had. I think I was probably the first person to be given access to it.
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Over the past half century, as American poetry's specialist audience has steadily expanded, its general readership has declined. Even if great poetry continues to be written, it has retreated from the center of literary life. Though supported by a loyal coterie, poetry has lost the confidence that it speaks to and for the general culture.
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People have to recognize that the arts are a major industry and need to be at the table for the recovery plan,.. There is no way for these local economies to recover unless we invest in the cultural life. Culture was Louisiana's second-biggest economy, right after oil. These organizations have suffered enormous losses.
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It's important that America recognizes its own great artists while they're still alive.
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Jazz may well be considered America's most treasured and most influential export,.. From its earliest days until now it has continued to grow creatively -- yet the people who have given us this art form deserve far greater recognition.
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America can no longer take active and engaged literacy for granted.
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Through Great American Voices, the NEA is building bridges between the military and arts community,.. This tour gives singers a chance to perform for new audiences and brings great music in live performance to military families.
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This is no longer as case of 'Johnny can't read,'.. It's Johnny won't read.'
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Jazz is one of the great, truly native American art forms. Along with the movies, it's probably the art that the rest of the world associates most deeply with America.
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In an age of global standardization, regional voices also remind both writer and reader that no life is lived generically. If the purpose of literature is truly, as the ancients insisted, to instruct and delight, then what better to understand and enjoy than the here and the now?
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Even if great poetry continues to be written, it has retreated from the center of literary life. Though supported by a loyal coterie, poetry has lost the confidence that it speaks to and for the general culture.
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Money. You don't know where it's been, but you put it where your mouth is. And it talks.
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The purpose of arts education is not to produce more artists, though that is a byproduct. The real purpose of arts education is to create complete human beings capable of leading successful and productive lives in a free society.
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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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