"It is worthwhile adding that the power of……" — Guy Davenport
"It is worthwhile adding that the power of the poem to teach not only sensibilities and the subtle movements of the spirit but knowledge, real lasting felt knowledge, is going mostly unnoticed among our scholars. The body of knowledge locked into and releasable from poetry can replace practically any university in the Republic. First things first, then: the primal importance of a poem is what it can add to the individual mind.Poetry is the voice of a poet at its birth, and the voice of a people in its ultimate fulfillment as a successful and useful work of art."
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20 Quotes by Guy Davenport
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Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.
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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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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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