Author: David Antin

Quotes

The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin.

The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin.

- 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 of speech as so far from song.

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.

- David Antin

You pay your money, you take your choice. I get the audience my language attracts and I lose the ones it repels.

You pay your money, you take your choice. I get the audience my language attracts and I lose the ones it repels.

- 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.

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

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

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

- David Antin

I'm aware of my audience in a way, and I do try to engage with them while I'm trying to go about my business of thinking. I believe they help me by providing a focus.

I'm aware of my audience in a way, and I do try to engage with them while I'm trying to go about my business of thinking. I believe they help me by providing a focus.

- David Antin

When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience.

When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience.

- David Antin

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