Guy Davenport
Writer
1927-11-23
Books by Guy Davenport
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Quotes by Guy Davenport
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The real use of imaginative reading is precisely to suspend one's mind in the workings of another sensibility.
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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.
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In curved Einsteinian space we are at all times, technically, looking at the back of our own head.
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