Gioia to graduates: 'Trade easy pleasures for more complex and challenging ones' →
“I have a reccurring nightmare. I am in Rome visiting the Sistine Chapel. I look up at Michelangelo’s incomparable fresco of the ‘Creation of Man.’ I see God stretching out his arm to touch the reclining Adam’s finger. And then I notice in the other hand Adam is holding a Diet Pepsi.” Poet Dana Gioia’s commencement address to Stanford University undergrads.
