Guy Davenport Quotes
nothing now exists that is so valuable as whatever theoretically might replace it.
Davenport, Guy. The Geography of the Imagination: Forty Essays. North Point Press, 1981.
She campaigned alone traveling throughout the South by train. She argued for change regarding civil rights. No First Lady had ever campaigned alone before, including Eleanor Roosevelt.
The designer was a exemplar of a third world artist and designer, having studied in the West, then implementing the emulation of neither but the creation of entirely new blended art and design. His cultural leap became an artistic and economic success.
She was charged with interfering with the Draft during WWI. She wrote and gave speeches against the war and was convicted according to the laws and court interpretations of the time.
Nothing that has ever been “certain” in the world of science has remained certain for more than 100 years and most certain things have been shown to be wrong or too simplistic in less than 30 years.
Guy Mattison Davenport was an American writer, translator, illustrator, painter, intellectual, and teacher.
