David Antin Quotes
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I was trying to find out what it was that everybody else understood without giving up my stubborn and hard-won lack of understanding.
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The Sophists' paradoxical talk pieces and their public debates were entertainment in 5th century Greece. And in that world, Socrates was an entertainer.
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I tended to emphasize the secular, the casual, the colloquial, the vernacular against the sacred.
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My rejection of the idea of entertainment in its current form is based on the audience that comes with it.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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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'm standing up thinking. Anybody who wants to listen is welcome. If not, I'm happy to see them go.
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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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An art machine is a system whose parts when put in motion act upon each other in such a way as to cause you to see things differently
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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.