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

—Guy Davenport

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Intended
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Man was first a hunter, and an artist: his early vestiges tell us that alone. But he must always have dreamed, and recognized and guessed and supposed, all the skills of the imagination. Language itself...

—Guy Davenport

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GeographyImaginationLanguage
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The real use of imaginative reading is precisely to suspend one’s mind in the workings of another sensibility.

—Guy Davenport

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MindReadingUse
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The difference between the Parthenon and the World Trade Center, between a French wine glass and a German beer mug, between Bach and John Philip Sousa, between Sophocles and Shakespeare, between a bicycle and a...

—Guy Davenport

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DifferenceMomentThough
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As long as you have ideas, you can keep going. That’s why writing fiction is so much fun: because you’re moving people about, and making settings for them to move in, so there’s always something...

—Guy Davenport

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FunIdeasMoving
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I was thought to be retarded as a child, and all the evidence indicates that I was.

—Guy Davenport

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ChildEvidenceRetarded
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I like to believe that I don’t think of myself as a writer. I am an amateur. Back when I was teaching, I wrote when I could. Weekends were good typewriter time. Now, it’s whenever...

—Guy Davenport

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

—Guy Davenport

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AgainDrunkLost
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My view, as one who taught it, is that the whole purpose of a literary education should be to tell people that these things exist. I don’t think any teacher should try to ‘teach an...

—Guy Davenport

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

—Guy Davenport

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ConfidenceLimits
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The poet is at the edge of our consciousness of the world, finding beyond the suspected nothingness which we imagine limits our perception another acre or so of being worth our venturing upon.

—Guy Davenport

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PoetPoetry
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I am not writing for scholars or fellow critics, but for people who like to read, to look at pictures, and to know things.

—Guy Davenport

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CriticsPicturesRead
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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

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FictionPast
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Fiction’s essential activity is to imagine how others feel, what a Saturday afternoon in an Italian town in the 2nd Century looked like. My ambition is solely to get some effect, as of light on...

—Guy Davenport

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AmbitionLightOthers
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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

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

—Guy Davenport

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