In curved Einsteinian space we are at all times, technically, looking at the back of our own head. — Guy Davenport 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 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 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 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
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
