"I never intended to be a teacher. I……" — Guy Davenport
"I never intended to be a teacher. I just like going to school and learning things."
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20 Quotes by Guy Davenport
Guy Davenport has 20 quotes on this site.
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Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.
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Something of the previous state, however, survives every change. This is called in the language of cybernetics (which took it…
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The birds suffer their suffering each in a lifetime, forgetting it as they go.
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Art is always the replacement of indifference by attention.
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A work of art is a form that articulates forces, making them intelligible.
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We will always return to the private and inviolable act of reading as our culture's way of developing an individual.
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There are many objects of desire, and therefore many desires. Some are born with us, hunger, yearning, and pride of…
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In curved Einsteinian space we are at all times, technically, looking at the back of our own head.
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It is worthwhile adding that the power of the poem to teach not only sensibilities and the subtle movements of…
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I’ve carved the puppet, and I manipulate the strings, but while it’s on stage, the show belongs to the puppet.
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Originality houses many rooms, and the views from the windows are all different.
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When Heraclitus said that everything passes steadily along, he was not inciting us to make the best of the moment,…
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When I died my hair red the first time, I felt as if it was what nature intended. I have…
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I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended…
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Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.
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Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social…
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In the Bhagavad Gita, there is no long discussion, nothing elaborate. The main reason for this is that everything stated…
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I find it difficult to judge myself, but people say that I have become a bit more socially acceptable over…
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Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is…
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Software constraints are only confining if you use them for what they're intended to be used for.
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There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make…
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When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended for self-flagellation solely.
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