Quotes by : Guy Davenport

There's nothing like being a soldier for confidence or learning your limits or enduring utter humiliation.....

Man was first a hunter, and an artist: his early vestiges tell us that alone. But he must always have....

The poet is at the edge of our consciousness of the world, finding beyond the suspected nothingness which....

My view, as one who taught it, is that the whole purpose of a literary education should be to tell people....

The difference between the Parthenon and the World Trade Center, between a French wine glass and a German....