I learned enough Hebrew to stagger through a meaningless ceremony that I scarcely remember. — David Antin Ceremony 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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
