Theres nothing like being a soldier for confidence or learning your limits or enduring utter humiliation. — Guy Davenport Confidence 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
“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
The poet is at the edge of our consciousness of the world, finding beyond the suspected nothingness which we imagine limits our… — Guy Davenport 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 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
