Guy Davenport Quotes

The Poet And Poetess Have Always Had A Rough Time Of It In The Republic. It Has Ever Been Their Endemic Luck To Starve, Become A Harvard Professor, Commit Suicide, Lose Their Reading Glasses Before An Audience Of Sophomores, Go Upon The People A La Barnum, And Serve As Homework In State Universities, Where They Could In Nowise Get A Position And Where Their Presence Usually Scatters The English Faculty Like A Truant Officer Among The Amish.

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