Theory Unless Quotes 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…

— David Antin

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

My way of thinking is very particular and concrete. It doesn't follow a continuous path.

— David Antin

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

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

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

I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.

— David Antin

I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James.

— 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.

— David Antin

There are editing procedures for talks just as there are editing procedures in jazz improvisation.

— David Antin

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

Stories are different every time you tell them - they allow so many possible narratives.

— David Antin