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Unless the work of art has wholly exhausted its maker's attention, it fails. This is why works of great significance are demanding and why they are infinitely rewarding.

~Guy Davenport

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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

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

~Guy Davenport

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Poetry and fiction have grieved for a century now over the loss of some vitality which they think they see in a past from which we are by now irrevocably alienated.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: November 23rd, 1927

Died: January 4th, 2005

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