American - Poet | February 1, 1932 -
I tended to emphasize the secular, the casual, the colloquial, the vernacular against the sacred.
David Antin
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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.
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I am quite unsatisfied by the distinctions between the oral and literate.
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My way of thinking is very particular and concrete. It doesn't follow a continuous path.
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You pay your money, you take your choice. I get the audience my language attracts and I lose the ones it repels.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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When my mother left her second husband, she wrote her autobiography and presented it to him for his approval.
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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.
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There is probably no oral society that fails to mark the spatial distinction of left and right, peculiar as this distinction may be.
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There are editing procedures for talks just as there are editing procedures in jazz improvisation.
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