The real use of imaginative reading is precisely to suspend one's mind in the workings of another sensibility.
From Guy Davenport
Fiction's essential activity is to imagine how others feel, what a Saturday afternoon in an Italian town in the 2nd Century looked like. My ambition is solely to get some effect, as of light on stone in a forest on a September day.
I am not writing for scholars or fellow critics, but for people who like to read, to look at pictures, and to know things.
Art knows neither doctrine nor idea; its nature is to show.
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