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For Guy Davenport--whom he told me John Barth once called the last modernist--modernism is 'a renaissance of the archaic'. — Lance Olsen

I am an optimist even though I am told everything I do is negative and cynical. — Armando Iannucci

Art is always the replacement of indifference by attention. — Guy Davenport

Imagination is like the drunk man who lost his watch and must get drunk again to find it. — Guy Davenport

Anybody who has ever tried to rectify an injustice or set a record straight comes to feel that he is going mad. — Mary McCarthy

Sometimes when reading Goethe I have a paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny. — 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

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

A work of art is a form that articulates forces, making them intelligible. — Guy Davenport

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

Art knows neither doctrine nor idea; its nature is to show. — Guy Davenport

The government should now launch an initiative to encourage people to join the social work profession. — Andy Sawford

The birds suffer their suffering each in a lifetime, forgetting it as they go. — Guy Davenport

The more I lose, the more they believe they can beat me. But believing is not enough, you still have to beat me. — Roger Federer

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

The real use of imaginative reading is precisely to suspend one's mind in the workings of another sensibility. — Guy Davenport

The living have no place at the feasts of the dead. — George R R Martin

Lives do not have plots, only biographies do. — Guy Davenport

I was thought to be retarded as a child, and all the evidence indicates that I was. — Guy Davenport

A boar is a very special kind of animal whose bristling is a thing unto itself, and his nape, like a snake's neck, is more a word than a reality. — Guy Davenport

Nothing now exists that is so valuable as whatever theoretically might replace it. — Guy Davenport

A werewolf is courting me with a dead rabbit. There's nothing subtle here." "Couldn't — T.J. Klune

In curved Einsteinian space we are at all times, technically, looking at the back of our own head. — Guy Davenport

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

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

Art is the attention we pay to the wholeness of the world. — Guy Davenport