Guy Davenport Quotes

Guy Davenport
American Writer
Born: Nov 23, 1927
Died: Jan 4, 2005
Imagination Learning People Teacher Think Writing
Related authors: Dale Carnegie Denis Waitley Dr. Seuss H. L. Mencken Napoleon Hill Ray Bradbury W. E. B. Du Bois William Arthur Ward
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 horse, though explicable by historical moment, necessity, and destiny, is before all a difference of imagination. Guy Davenport
Beer World Wine Bicycle Before Imagination Philip Bach Destiny Though John Shakespeare Horse Glass Between French Trade Historical German Difference Center Mug Moment World Trade Necessity World Trade Center
I was thought to be retarded as a child, and all the evidence indicates that I was. Guy Davenport
Thought Evidence Retarded Child
Art knows neither doctrine nor idea; its nature is to show. Guy Davenport
Art Nature Neither Idea Doctrine Knows Nor Show
There's nothing like being a soldier for confidence or learning your limits or enduring utter humiliation. Guy Davenport
Confidence Learning Humiliation Nothing Soldier Like Limits Being Enduring Your Utter
The real use of imaginative reading is precisely to suspend one's mind in the workings of another sensibility. Guy Davenport
Mind Reading Another Real Precisely Suspend Sensibility Use Workings Imaginative
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
Work Art Great Demanding Exhausted Unless Significance Attention Fails Maker Infinitely Rewarding Works Wholly Why
Imagination is like the drunk man who lost his watch and must get drunk again to find it. Guy Davenport
Man Drunk Lost Imagination Must Find Like His Get Again Who Watch
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 stone in a forest on a September day. Guy Davenport
Day Light Ambition September Others Solely Some Feel Town Like Looked How Italian Effect Forest Get Stone Essential Fiction Afternoon Century Activity Saturday Imagine
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
People Writing Critics Scholars Pictures Like Know Look Fellow Read Am Who Things

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