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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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-antin/i-m-standing-up-thinking-anybody-who-wants-to-listen-is-welcome-if/)

[David Antin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-antin/)

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## More by David Antin

> [A myth is the name of a terrible lie told by a smelly little brown person to a man in a white suit with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-antin/a-myth-is-the-name-of-a-terrible-lie-told-by-a-smelly-little-brown/)

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> [The ancient Greek oral poets all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the Muse…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-antin/the-ancient-greek-oral-poets-all-had-this-anxiety-about-the/)

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> [My way of thinking is very particular and concrete. It doesn't follow a continuous path.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-antin/my-way-of-thinking-is-very-particular-and-concrete-it-doesn-t-follow/)

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> [While I don't script and I don't use other performers, I think my taste for underlying precision gives me something in common with Allan…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-antin/while-i-don-t-script-and-i-don-t-use-other-performers-i-think-my/)

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> [While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-antin/while-i-ve-had-a-great-distaste-for-what-s-usually-called-song-in/)

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> [There is probably no oral society that fails to mark the spatial distinction of left and right, peculiar as this distinction may be.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-antin/there-is-probably-no-oral-society-that-fails-to-mark-the-spatial/)

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> [I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-antin/i-hardly-remember-how-i-started-to-write-poetry-it-s-hard-to-imagine/)

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> [I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-antin/i-can-manage-a-prose-format-as-long-as-i-keep-closer-to-laurence/)

[David Antin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-antin/)

> [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-antin/disney-made-a-fortune-out-of-inventing-the-businessman-s-idea-of-the/)

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> [There are editing procedures for talks just as there are editing procedures in jazz improvisation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-antin/there-are-editing-procedures-for-talks-just-as-there-are-editing/)

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> [For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-antin/for-several-centuries-what-has-passed-for-song-in-literary-circles/)

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> [Stories are different every time you tell them - they allow so many possible narratives.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-antin/stories-are-different-every-time-you-tell-them-they-allow-so-many/)

[David Antin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-antin/)

> [When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-antin/when-you-grow-up-in-a-family-of-languages-you-develop-a-kind-of/)

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> [I'm not sure what theory is, unless it's the pursuit of fundamental questions.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-antin/i-m-not-sure-what-theory-is-unless-it-s-the-pursuit-of-fundamental/)

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> [My mother turned into a professional widow. She couldnt understand why I wanted to be an engineer; she thought I should be a chicken…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-antin/my-mother-turned-into-a-professional-widow-she-couldnt-understand-why/)

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