I never intended to be a teacher. I just like going to school and learning things.

- Guy Davenport

The poet is at the edge of our consciousness of the world, finding beyond the suspected nothingness which we imagine limits our perception another ac…

- Guy Davenport

Art is always the replacement of indifference by attention.

- Guy Davenport

Originality houses many rooms, and the views from the windows are all different.

- Guy Davenport

nothing now exists that is so valuable as whatever theoretically might replace it.

- Guy Davenport

I’ve carved the puppet, and I manipulate the strings, but while it’s on stage, the show belongs to the puppet.

- Guy Davenport

Unless the work of art has wholly exhausted its makers attention, it fails. This is why works of great significance are demanding and why they are in…

- Guy Davenport

We will always return to the private and inviolable act of reading as our culture's way of developing an individual.

- Guy Davenport

There are many objects of desire, and therefore many desires. Some are born with us, hunger, yearning, and pride of place, and some are of the foolis…

- Guy Davenport