David Antin Quotes & Sayings
37 most famous David Antin quotes and sayings (poet). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“It's hard being a hostage in somebody else's mouth - or a character in somebody else's novel.”
“I've always had a strong feeling for the Statue of Liberty, because it became the statue of my personal liberty.”
“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.”
“I am quite unsatisfied by the distinctions between the oral and literate.”
“For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.”
“I learned enough Hebrew to stagger through a meaningless ceremony that I scarcely remember.”
“I tended to emphasize the secular, the casual, the colloquial, the vernacular against the sacred.”
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