"Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing……" — Guy Davenport
"Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny."
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20 Quotes by Guy Davenport
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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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The poet is at the edge of our consciousness of the world, finding beyond the suspected nothingness which we imagine…
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