Author: Guy Davenport

Quotes

Poetry and fiction have grieved for a century now over the loss of some vitality which they think they see in a past from which we are by now irrevocably alienated.

Poetry and fiction have grieved for a century now over the loss of some vitality which they think they see in a past from which we are by now irrevocably alienated.

- Guy Davenport

Unless the work of art has wholly exhausted its maker's attention, it fails. This is why works of great significance are demanding and why they are infinitely rewarding.

Unless the work of art has wholly exhausted its maker's attention, it fails. This is why works of great significance are demanding and why they are infinitely rewarding.

- Guy Davenport

Imagination is like the drunk man who lost his watch and must get drunk again to find it.

Imagination is like the drunk man who lost his watch and must get drunk again to find it.

- Guy Davenport

I never intended to be a teacher. I just like going to school and learning things.

I never intended to be a teacher. I just like going to school and learning things.

- Guy Davenport

Art knows neither doctrine nor idea; its nature is to show.

Art knows neither doctrine nor idea; its nature is to show.

- Guy Davenport

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