I am quite unsatisfied by the distinctions between the oral and literate. — David Antin Distinction Copy Share Image
My way of thinking is very particular and concrete. It doesn't follow a continuous path. — David Antin Concrete Copy Share Image
From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us. — David Antin Entertainment Copy Share Image
I've always had a strong feeling for the Statue of Liberty, because it became the statue of my personal liberty. — David Antin Feelings 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… — David Antin Distinction 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… — David Antin Binoculars Copy Share Image
Stories are different every time you tell them - they allow so many possible narratives. — David Antin Different 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 Hard 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… — David Antin Ancient 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… — David Antin Distaste 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… — David Antin Century 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… — David Antin Actor Copy Share Image
My mother turned into a professional widow. She couldnt understand why I wanted to be an engineer; she thought I should be… — David Antin Chickens Copy Share Image
When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored,… — David Antin Casual 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… — David Antin Businessman Copy Share Image
There are editing procedures for talks just as there are editing procedures in jazz improvisation. — David Antin Editing Copy Share Image
I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James. — David Antin Format Copy Share Image
I tended to emphasize the secular, the casual, the colloquial, the vernacular against the sacred. — David Antin Casual Copy Share Image
I reserve the right to tell shaggy dog stories or even common jokes as part of what I'm doing. I don't give… — David Antin Audience Copy Share Image
My rejection of the idea of entertainment in its current form is based on the audience that comes with it. — David Antin Audience Copy Share Image
You pay your money, you take your choice. I get the audience my language attracts and I lose the ones it repels. — David Antin Audience Copy Share Image
I was trying to find out what it was that everybody else understood without giving up my stubborn and hard-won lack of… — David Antin Giving Copy Share Image
I'm not sure what theory is, unless it's the pursuit of fundamental questions. — David Antin Fundamental Copy Share Image
I have spoken to expert audiences occasionally, but then no audience is expert over the whole range of things I want to… — David Antin Audience Copy Share Image
When my mother left her second husband, she wrote her autobiography and presented it to him for his approval. — David Antin Appreciate Copy Share Image
I'm standing up thinking. Anybody who wants to listen is welcome. If not, I'm happy to see them go. — David Antin Standing Copy Share Image
I had no idea where these kids at a small private college in the San Fernando Valley were coming from, why they… — David Antin College 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… — David Antin Audience Copy Share Image
I was very committed to the process of composing, working at poems, putting things together and taking them apart like some kind… — David Antin Committed Copy Share Image
I learned enough Hebrew to stagger through a meaningless ceremony that I scarcely remember. — David Antin Ceremony Copy Share Image
The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside… — David Antin Communication Copy Share Image
When I got to the reading all the work, I was reduced to being an actor in an experimental play that I'd… — David Antin Actor Copy Share Image
I wanted to be an inventor, whatever I thought that meant then. I guess I was thinking of Edison or maybe James… — David Antin Inventor Copy Share Image
It's hard being a hostage in somebody else's mouth - or a character in somebody else's novel. — David Antin Books Copy Share Image
Children frequently sing meaningful phrases to themselves over and over again before they learn to make a distinction between singing and saying. — David Antin Children Copy Share Image
An art machine is a system whose parts when put in motion act upon each other in such a way as to… — David Antin Art Copy Share Image
The Sophists' paradoxical talk pieces and their public debates were entertainment in 5th century Greece. And in that world, Socrates was an… — David Antin Century Copy Share Image
My mother turned into a professional widow. She couldn't understand why I wanted to be an engineer; she thought I should be… — David Antin Chicken Copy Share Image
I didn't think about whether I was writing poems. I was thinking. And the more I was thinking, the more there was… — David Antin Poetry Copy Share Image
