Quotes by Guy Davenport

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

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"The difference between the Parthenon and the World Trade Center, between a French wine glass and a German beer mug, between Bach and John Philip Sousa, between Sophocles and Shakespeare, between a bicycle and a horse, though explicable by historical moment, necessity, and destiny, is before all a difference of imagination."

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