David Antin quotes - page 2

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 and George Brecht. (David Antin)
Stories are different every time you tell them - they allow so many possible narratives. View quote
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I didn't think about whether I was writing poems. I was thinking. And the more I was thinking, the more there was I didn't understand. View quote
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The Sophists' paradoxical talk pieces and their public debates were entertainment in 5th century Greece. And in that world, Socrates was an entertainer. View quote
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I've always had a strong feeling for the Statue of Liberty, because it became the statue of my personal liberty. View quote
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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 speech as so far from song. View quote
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I'm not sure what theory is, unless it's the pursuit of fundamental questions. View quote
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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. View quote
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My mother turned into a professional widow. She couldn't understand why I wanted to be an engineer; she thought I should be a chicken farmer. View quote
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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. View quote
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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 I didn't want to be an actor. (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. View quote
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David Antin

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Photo: George Quasha, CC BY 3.0
Occupation: American Poet
Born: February 1, 1932
Died: October 11, 2016
Quotes count: 37

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