The ancient Greek oral poets all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the Muse to help them remember. — David Antin Copy Share Image
I'm aware of my audience in a way, and I do try to engage with them while I'm trying to go about my business of thinking. I believe they help me by providing a focus. — David Antin Copy Share Image
A myth is the name of a terrible lie told by a smelly little brown person to a man in a white suit with… — David Antin Copy Share Image
The ancient Greek oral poets all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the Muse… — David Antin Copy Share Image
My way of thinking is very particular and concrete. It doesn't follow a continuous path. — David Antin Copy Share Image
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… — David Antin Copy Share Image
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… — David Antin Copy Share Image
There is probably no oral society that fails to mark the spatial distinction of left and right, peculiar as this distinction may be. — David Antin Copy Share Image
I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do. — David Antin Copy Share Image
I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James. — David Antin Copy Share Image
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. — David Antin Copy Share Image
There are editing procedures for talks just as there are editing procedures in jazz improvisation. — David Antin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Stories are different every time you tell them - they allow so many possible narratives. — David Antin Copy Share Image
