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Art knows neither doctrine nor idea; its nature is to show.
~ Guy Davenport
Art
Doctrine
Idea
Knows
Nature
Neither
Nor
Show
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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 there to keep working on.
~ Guy Davenport
About
Always
Because
Fiction
Fun
Going
Ideas
Keep
Keep Going
Long
Making
Move
Moving
Much
People
Settings
So Much Fun
Something
Them
Why
Working
Writing
You
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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 stone in a forest on a September day.
~ Guy Davenport
Activity
Afternoon
Ambition
Century
Day
Effect
Essential
Feel
Fiction
Forest
Get
How
Imagine
Italian
Light
Like
Looked
Others
Saturday
September
Solely
Some
Stone
Town
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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
Am
Critics
Fellow
I Am
Know
Like
Look
People
Pictures
Read
Scholars
Things
Who
Writing
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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 I feel there's something to be put on paper. I don't care what time it is, though I always write in the notebooks at night.
~ Guy Davenport
Always
Am
Amateur
Back
Believe
Care
Could
don't Care
Feel
Good
I Am
I Feel
Like
Myself
Night
Notebooks
Now
Paper
Put
Something
Teaching
Think
Though
Time
Typewriter
Weekends
Were
Whenever
Write
Writer
Wrote
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I never intended to be a teacher. I just like going to school and learning things.
~ Guy Davenport
Going
Intended
Just
Learning
Like
Never
School
Teacher
Things
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I was thought to be retarded as a child, and all the evidence indicates that I was.
~ Guy Davenport
Child
Evidence
Retarded
Thought
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Imagination is like the drunk man who lost his watch and must get drunk again to find it.
~ Guy Davenport
Again
Drunk
Find
Get
His
Imagination
Like
Lost
Man
Must
Watch
Who
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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 author,' but rather simply describe what the author has written. And this is what I tried to do.
~ Guy Davenport
Any
Author
Describe
Education
Exist
I Tried
Literary
People
Purpose
Rather
Should
Simply
Taught
Teach
Teacher
Tell
Things
Think
Tried
Try
View
Who
Whole
Written
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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
Alienated
Century
Fiction
Loss
Now
Over
Past
Poetry
See
Some
Think
Vitality
Which
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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 horse, though explicable by historical moment, necessity, and destiny, is before all a difference of imagination.
~ Guy Davenport
Bach
Beer
Before
Between
Bicycle
Center
Destiny
Difference
French
German
Glass
Historical
Horse
Imagination
John
Moment
Mug
Necessity
Philip
Shakespeare
Though
Trade
Wine
World
World Trade
World Trade Center
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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
Another
Imaginative
Mind
Precisely
Reading
Real
Sensibility
Suspend
Use
Workings
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There's nothing like being a soldier for confidence or learning your limits or enduring utter humiliation.
~ Guy Davenport
Being
Confidence
Enduring
Humiliation
Learning
Like
Limits
Nothing
Soldier
Utter
Your
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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
Art
Attention
Demanding
Exhausted
Fails
Great
Infinitely
Maker
Rewarding
Significance
Unless
Wholly
Why
Work
Works
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23 November, 1927
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04 January, 2005
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