I was thought to be retarded as a child, and all the evidence indicates that I was. — Guy Davenport Child Copy Share Image
“Sometimes when reading Goethe I have a paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.” — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
The poet is at the edge of our consciousness of the world, finding beyond the suspected nothingness which we imagine limits our… — Guy Davenport Acres Copy Share Image
“The poet and poetess have always had a rough time of it in the Republic. It has ever been their endemic luck… — Guy Davenport Poetry Copy Share Image
Something of the previous state, however, survives every change. This is called in the language of cybernetics (which took it form the… — Guy Davenport Advantage Copy Share Image
I’ve carved the puppet, and I manipulate the strings, but while it’s on stage, the show belongs to the puppet. — Guy Davenport Manipulate Copy Share Image
“I God, a very Gomorry on wheels! You lead the most exciting life I know of, and complain more about it than… — Guy Davenport Exciting life Copy Share Image
“Man was first a hunter, and an artist: his early vestiges tell us that alone. But he must always have dreamed, and… — Guy Davenport Art Copy Share Image
It is worthwhile adding that the power of the poem to teach not only sensibilities and the subtle movements of the spirit… — Guy Davenport Add Copy Share Image
nothing now exists that is so valuable as whatever theoretically might replace it. — Guy Davenport Might Copy Share Image
Originality houses many rooms, and the views from the windows are all different. — Guy Davenport Creativity Copy Share Image
My view, as one who taught it, is that the whole purpose of a literary education should be to tell people that… — Guy Davenport Any Copy Share Image
“Bonnie Jean (who thinks all philosophers are idiots) has this quarrel with Wittgenstein, who in several places says that reddish green is… — Guy Davenport Philosophy Copy Share Image
“The meaning of the world, said Wittgenstein, is outside the world. Events and values are distinguishable only in relation to others. A… — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
When Heraclitus said that everything passes steadily along, he was not inciting us to make the best of the moment, an idea… — Guy Davenport Attention Copy Share Image
The birds suffer their suffering each in a lifetime, forgetting it as they go. — Guy Davenport Bird Copy Share Image
Imagination is like the drunk man who lost his watch and must get drunk again to find it. — Guy Davenport Again Copy Share Image
As long as you have ideas, you can keep going. That's why writing fiction is so much fun: because you're moving people… — Guy Davenport About Copy Share Image
The real use of imaginative reading is precisely to suspend one's mind in the workings of another sensibility. — Guy Davenport Another Copy Share Image
“Olson's Maximus and Zukofsky's 'A' are too symbolically and verbally complex, respectively, to command large audiences especially in an age when a… — Guy Davenport Illiteracy Copy Share Image
Poetry and fiction have grieved for a century now over the loss of some vitality which they think they see in a… — Guy Davenport Alienated Copy Share Image
“A pettos speckled with gold ajiggle with a fremitus from the heart touches me like Athena's hoolet mewing in uncertain dark. So… — Guy Davenport Song Copy Share Image
There's nothing like being a soldier for confidence or learning your limits or enduring utter humiliation. — Guy Davenport Being Copy Share Image
