There's nothing like being a soldier for confidence or learning your limits or enduring utter humiliation. Guy Davenport confidenceendurehumiliation Change image and share on social
Art knows neither doctrine nor idea; its nature is to show. Guy Davenport artdoctrineidea Change image and share on social
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 2ndactivityafternoon share on social
The real use of imaginative reading is precisely to suspend one's mind in the workings of another sensibility. Guy Davenport imaginativemindprecisely Change image and share on social
