Top 14 Quotes by Guy Davenport

About Guy Davenport

These are some quotes by American author Guy Davenport Writer, who lived between November 23, 1927 and January 4, 2005.

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

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

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

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