David Antin Quotes & Sayings

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37 most famous David Antin quotes and sayings (poet). These are the first 10 quotes we have.

David Antin Quotes
“It's hard being a hostage in somebody else's mouth - or a character in somebody else's novel.”
David Antin Quotes
“I've always had a strong feeling for the Statue of Liberty, because it became the statue of my personal liberty.”
David Antin Quotes
“My mother turned into a professional widow. She couldn't understand why I wanted to be an engineer; she thought I should be a chicken farmer.”
David Antin Quotes
“I am quite unsatisfied by the distinctions between the oral and literate.”
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
“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.”
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
“I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.”
David Antin Quotes
“I learned enough Hebrew to stagger through a meaningless ceremony that I scarcely remember.”
David Antin Quotes
“I tended to emphasize the secular, the casual, the colloquial, the vernacular against the sacred.”

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