Author: Guy Davenport

Quotes

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

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

- 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

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

There's nothing like being a soldier for confidence or learning your limits or enduring utter humiliation.

There's nothing like being a soldier for confidence or learning your limits or enduring utter humiliation.

- Guy Davenport

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