David Antin Quotes

Children frequently sing meaningful phrases to themselves over and over again before they learn to make a distinction between singing and saying.

A myth is the name of a terrible lie told by a smelly little brown person to a man in a white suit with a pair of binoculars.

For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting.

I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. Its hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.

I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James.

I am quite unsatisfied by the distinctions between the oral and literate.

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.

From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us.

Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessmans idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessmans idea of the real.

I didnt think about whether I was writing poems. I was thinking. And the more I was thinking, the more there was I didnt understand.