“The unexamined life is eminently worth living, were anyone so fortunate. It would be the life of an animal, brave and alert,… — Guy Davenport Animals Copy Share Image
In curved Einsteinian space we are at all times, technically, looking at the back of our own head. — Guy Davenport All time Copy Share Image
Fiction's essential activity is to imagine how others feel, what a Saturday afternoon in an Italian town in the 2nd Century looked… — Guy Davenport Activity Copy Share Image
We will always return to the private and inviolable act of reading as our culture's way of developing an individual. — Guy Davenport Book Copy Share Image
I like to believe that I don't think of myself as a writer. I am an amateur. Back when I was teaching,… — Guy Davenport Always Copy Share Image
“... a boar is a very special kind of animal whose bristling is a thing unto itself, and his nape, like a… — Guy Davenport Animals Copy Share Image
There are many objects of desire, and therefore many desires. Some are born with us, hunger, yearning, and pride of place, and… — Guy Davenport Athlete Copy Share Image
Unless the work of art has wholly exhausted its makers attention, it fails. This is why works of great significance are demanding… — Guy Davenport Art Copy Share Image
“How can I shake and dispel the awful reputation of being an "erudite" writer? I’m about as erudite as a traffic cop.… — Guy Davenport Writing Copy Share Image
I am not writing for scholars or fellow critics, but for people who like to read, to look at pictures, and to… — Guy Davenport Am 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… — Guy Davenport Art Copy Share Image
Theres nothing like being a soldier for confidence or learning your limits or enduring utter humiliation. — Guy Davenport Confidence Copy Share Image
There are many objects of desire, and therefore many desires. Some are born with us, hunger, yearning, and pride of place, and… — Guy Davenport Athlete Copy Share Image
A work of art is a form that articulates forces, making them intelligible. — Guy Davenport Art Copy Share Image
“Of the autistically interior, dreaming, reading, erotic, self-sufficient child in Balthus' painting we have practically no image at all. Balthus' children are… — Guy Davenport Children Copy Share Image
The difference between the Parthenon and the World Trade Center, between a French wine glass and a German beer mug, between Bach… — Guy Davenport Bach Copy Share Image
Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny. — Guy Davenport Humorous Copy Share Image
I never intended to be a teacher. I just like going to school and learning things. — Guy Davenport Education Copy Share Image
“Reality is the most effective mask of reality. Our fondest wish, attained, ceases to be our fondest wish. Success is the greatest… — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
