Guy DavenportThe birds suffer their suffering each in a lifetime, forgetting it as they go. ✨ Guy Davenport (2013). The Guy Davenport Reader, p.61, Counterpoint374LifeReadingTime
Guy DavenportThe poet is at the edge of our consciousness of the world, finding beyond the suspected nothingness which we imagine limits our perception another acre or so of being worth our ve… ▶301Death
Guy DavenportArt is always the replacement of indifference by attention.282Time
Guy DavenportWe will always return to the private and inviolable act of reading as our culture's way of developing an individual. ✨ Guy Davenport (2013). The Guy Davenport Reader, p.302,… ▶241Reading
Guy DavenportSomething of the previous state, however, survives every change. This is called in the language of cybernetics (which took it form the language of machines) feedback, the advantag… ▶276LifePolitics
Guy DavenportSometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.222HumorReadingTime
Guy DavenportWhen Heraclitus said that everything passes steadily along, he was not inciting us to make the best of the moment, an idea unseemly to his placid mind, but to pay attention to the… ▶166ReadingThoughtTime
Guy DavenportA work of art is a form that articulates forces, making them intelligible. ✨ Guy Davenport (2015). Every Force Evolves a Form: Twenty Essays, p.5, Open Road Media148Philosophy
