All David Antin Quotes
When my mother left her second husband, she wrote her autobiography and presented it to him for his approval.
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I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.
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Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman's idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman's idea of the real.
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I'm not sure what theory is, unless it's the pursuit of fundamental questions.
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When I got to the reading all the work, I was reduced to being an actor in an experimental play that I'd already written. And I didn't want to be an actor.
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You pay your money, you take your choice. I get the audience my language attracts and I lose the ones it repels.
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When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience.
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I tended to emphasize the secular, the casual, the colloquial, the vernacular against the sacred.
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I have spoken to expert audiences occasionally, but then no audience is expert over the whole range of things I want to explore.
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I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James.
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The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin.
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I wanted to be an inventor, whatever I thought that meant then. I guess I was thinking of Edison or maybe James Watt. Or maybe even Newton.
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Children frequently sing meaningful phrases to themselves over and over again before they learn to make a distinction between singing and saying.
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I didn't think about whether I was writing poems. I was thinking. And the more I was thinking, the more there was I didn't understand.
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For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting.
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