Unless the work of art has wholly exhausted its makers attention, it fails. This is why works of great significance are demanding and why they are infinitely rewarding. — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
Unless the work of art has wholly exhausted its maker's attention, it fails. This is why works of great significance are demanding and why they are infinitely rewarding. — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
I was thought to be retarded as a child, and all the evidence indicates that I was. — Guy Davenport Copy Share
“Sometimes when reading Goethe I have a paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.” — Guy Davenport Copy Share
The poet is at the edge of our consciousness of the world, finding beyond the suspected nothingness which we imagine limits our perception another… — Guy Davenport Copy Share
“The poet and poetess have always had a rough time of it in the Republic. It has ever been their endemic luck to starve,… — Guy Davenport Copy Share
Something of the previous state, however, survives every change. This is called in the language of cybernetics (which took it form the language of… — Guy Davenport Copy Share
I’ve carved the puppet, and I manipulate the strings, but while it’s on stage, the show belongs to the puppet. — Guy Davenport Copy Share
“I God, a very Gomorry on wheels! You lead the most exciting life I know of, and complain more about it than any two… — Guy Davenport Copy Share
“Man was first a hunter, and an artist: his early vestiges tell us that alone. But he must always have dreamed, and recognized and… — Guy Davenport Copy Share
It is worthwhile adding that the power of the poem to teach not only sensibilities and the subtle movements of the spirit but knowledge,… — Guy Davenport Copy Share
nothing now exists that is so valuable as whatever theoretically might replace it. — Guy Davenport Copy Share
Originality houses many rooms, and the views from the windows are all different. — Guy Davenport Copy Share
My view, as one who taught it, is that the whole purpose of a literary education should be to tell people that these things… — Guy Davenport Copy Share
“Bonnie Jean (who thinks all philosophers are idiots) has this quarrel with Wittgenstein, who in several places says that reddish green is inconceivable. Yet… — Guy Davenport Copy Share
