All David Antin Quotes
- When my mother left her second husband, she wrote her autobiography and presented it to him for his approval. Appreciate
- I was trying to find out what it was that everybody else understood without giving up my stubborn and hard-won lack of understanding. Else Understood
- 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 of… Called
- I reserve the right to tell shaggy dog stories or even common jokes as part of what I'm doing. I don't give a damn if… Audience
- For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting. Any
- I'm standing up thinking. Anybody who wants to listen is welcome. If not, I'm happy to see them go. Anybody
- I'm not sure what theory is, unless it's the pursuit of fundamental questions. Fundamental
- I learned enough Hebrew to stagger through a meaningless ceremony that I scarcely remember. Ceremony
- I tended to emphasize the secular, the casual, the colloquial, the vernacular against the sacred. Casual
- I was very committed to the process of composing, working at poems, putting things together and taking them apart like some kind of experimental filmmaker. Apart
- There is probably no oral society that fails to mark the spatial distinction of left and right, peculiar as this distinction may be. Distinction
- When I got to the reading all the work, I was reduced to being an actor in an experimental play that I'd already written. And… Actor