David Antin Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)
David Antin quotes and sayings page 3 (poet). Here's quote # 21 through 30 out of the 37 we have.
“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.”
“Children frequently sing meaningful phrases to themselves over and over again before they learn to make a distinction between singing and saying.”
“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.”
“I reserve the right to tell shaggy dog stories or even common jokes as part of what I'm doing. I don't give a damn if half the audience walks out.”
“From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us.”
“I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James.”
“I have spoken to expert audiences occasionally, but then no audience is expert over the whole range of things I want to explore.”
“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.”
“My way of thinking is very particular and concrete. It doesn't follow a continuous path.”
“There are editing procedures for talks just as there are editing procedures in jazz improvisation.”
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