"We will always return to the private and……" — Guy Davenport

"We will always return to the private and inviolable act of reading as our culture's way of developing an individual."

— Guy Davenport

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20 Quotes by Guy Davenport

Guy Davenport has 20 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.
Something of the previous state, however, survives every change. This is called in the language of cybernetics (which took it…
The birds suffer their suffering each in a lifetime, forgetting it as they go.
Art is always the replacement of indifference by attention.
A work of art is a form that articulates forces, making them intelligible.
There are many objects of desire, and therefore many desires. Some are born with us, hunger, yearning, and pride of…
In curved Einsteinian space we are at all times, technically, looking at the back of our own head.
It is worthwhile adding that the power of the poem to teach not only sensibilities and the subtle movements of…
I’ve carved the puppet, and I manipulate the strings, but while it’s on stage, the show belongs to the puppet.
Originality houses many rooms, and the views from the windows are all different.
When Heraclitus said that everything passes steadily along, he was not inciting us to make the best of the moment,…
The poet is at the edge of our consciousness of the world, finding beyond the suspected nothingness which we imagine…

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More Act Quotes

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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has… — Hannah Arendt
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,… — Aristotle
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. — Karen Armstrong
Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold
Criticize the act, not the person. — Mary Kay Ash
We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure… — Julian Assange
Gardening is not a rational act. — Margaret Atwood
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden

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