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David Antin Quotes
A myth is the name of a terrible lie told by a smelly little brown person to a man in a white suit with a pair of binoculars. - David Antin Quotes
Children frequently sing meaningful phrases to themselves over and over again before they learn to make a distinction between singing and saying. - David Antin Quotes
Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessmans idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessmans idea of the real. - David Antin Quotes
For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting. - David Antin Quotes
From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us. - David Antin Quotes
Growing up in Brooklyn in the 40s and following the war in the papers and on the radio every day, the world looked very different to us then. - David Antin Quotes
I am quite unsatisfied by the distinctions between the oral and literate. - David Antin Quotes
I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James. - David Antin Quotes
I didnt think about whether I was writing poems. I was thinking. And the more I was thinking, the more there was I didnt understand. - David Antin Quotes
I had no idea where these kids at a small private college in the San Fernando Valley were coming from, why they were coming to hear me, or what they needed to know. - David Antin Quotes
I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. Its hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do. - David Antin Quotes
I have spoken to expert audiences occasionally, but then no audience is expert over the whole range of things I want to explore. - David Antin Quotes
I learned enough Hebrew to stagger through a meaningless ceremony that I scarcely remember. - David Antin Quotes
I reserve the right to tell shaggy dog stories or even common jokes as part of what Im doing. I dont give a damn if half the audience walks out. - David Antin Quotes
I tended to emphasize the secular, the casual, the colloquial, the vernacular against the sacred. - David Antin Quotes
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. - David Antin Quotes
I was trying to find out what it was that everybody else understood without giving up my stubborn and hard-won lack of understanding. - David Antin Quotes
I was very committed to the process of composing, working at poems, putting things together and taking them apart like some kind of experimental filmmaker. - David Antin Quotes
Im aware of my audience in a way, and I do try to engage with them while Im trying to go about my business of thinking. I believe they help me by providing a focus. - David Antin Quotes
Im not sure what theory is, unless its the pursuit of fundamental questions. - David Antin Quotes
Im standing up thinking. Anybody who wants to listen is welcome. If not, Im happy to see them go. - David Antin Quotes
Ive always had a strong feeling for the Statue of Liberty, because it became the statue of my personal liberty. - David Antin Quotes
Its hard being a hostage in somebody elses mouth - or a character in somebody elses novel. - David Antin Quotes
My mother turned into a professional widow. She couldnt understand why I wanted to be an engineer; she thought I should be a chicken farmer. - David Antin Quotes
My rejection of the idea of entertainment in its current form is based on the audience that comes with it. - David Antin Quotes
My way of thinking is very particular and concrete. It doesnt follow a continuous path. - David Antin Quotes
Nobody has paid much attention to the structure of my books as books, probably because the individual works all begin in performance. - David Antin Quotes
Stories are different every time you tell them - they allow so many possible narratives. - David Antin Quotes
The Sophists paradoxical talk pieces and their public debates were entertainment in 5th century Greece. And in that world, Socrates was an entertainer. - David Antin Quotes
The ancient Greek oral poets all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the Muse to help them remember. - David Antin Quotes
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