The Catholic Writer Today Quotes

“The renewal of the Catholic arts will not come from the Church itself.”
― Dana Gioia, The Catholic Writer Today: And Other Essays

“The great potential of Christian literature [is] to depict the material world, the physical world of the senses, while also revealing behind it another invisible and eternal dimension.”
― Dana Gioia, The Catholic Writer Today: And Other Essays

“To be a Catholic writer is to stand at the center of the Western tradition in artistic terms. *”
― Dana Gioia, The Catholic Writer Today: And Other Essays

“The Catholic writer has the inestimable advantage of a profound and truthful worldview that has been articulated, explored, and amplified by two thousand years of art and philosophy, a tradition whose symbols, stories, personalities, and concepts and correspondences add enormous resonance to any artist’s work.”
― Dana Gioia, The Catholic Writer Today: And Other Essays

“Two great poets are stronger than two thousand mediocrities.”
― Dana Gioia, The Catholic Writer Today: And Other Essays

“History doesn’t solve problems, culture doesn’t solve problems; only people do.”
― Dana Gioia, The Catholic Writer Today: And Other Essays

“Beauty is either incarnate, or it remains an intangible abstraction.”
― Dana Gioia, The Catholic Writer Today: And Other Essays

“Bells and incense!” scoffs the Puritan, but God gave people ears and noses. Are those organs of perception too humble to bring into church?”
― Dana Gioia, The Catholic Writer Today: And Other Essays

“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, The Catholic Writer Today: And Other Essays

“The American writer is becoming as standardized as the American car—functional, streamlined, and increasingly interchangeable.”
― Dana Gioia, The Catholic Writer Today: And Other Essays

“The great and present danger to American literature is the growing homogeneity of our writers, especially the younger generation. Often raised in several places in no specific cultural or religious community, educated with no deep connection to a particular region, history, or tradition, and now employed mostly in academia, the American writer is becoming as standardized as the American car—functional, streamlined, and increasingly interchangeable.”
― Dana Gioia, The Catholic Writer Today: And Other Essays

“If Catholic Christianity does not offer a vision of existence that transcends the election cycle, if our redemption is social and our resurrection economic, then it’s time to render everything up to Caesar.”
― Dana Gioia, The Catholic Writer Today: And Other Essays

“Catholic literature is rarely pious.”
― Dana Gioia, The Catholic Writer Today: And Other Essays

“All reality is mysteriously charged with the invisible presence of God.”
― Dana Gioia, The Catholic Writer Today: And Other Essays