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David Antin Quotes

American - Poet | February 1, 1932 -

The Sophists' paradoxical talk pieces and their public debates were entertainment in 5th century Greece. And in that world, Socrates was an entertainer.

World Entertainment Talk Pieces Were

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.

Future Past Society Self Present

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.

Memories Anxiety Help Remember Muse

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

Time You Possible Tell Different

My rejection of the idea of entertainment in its current form is based on the audience that comes with it.

Rejection Entertainment Audience Idea

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.

Mother Thought Farmer Professional

It's hard being a hostage in somebody else's mouth - or a character in somebody else's novel.

Character Mouth Hard Being Hostage

I'm standing up thinking. Anybody who wants to listen is welcome. If not, I'm happy to see them go.

Welcome Happy Thinking Go Listen Up

I'm not sure what theory is, unless it's the pursuit of fundamental questions.

Questions Theory Pursuit Sure Unless

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.

Business Focus Me Believe Thinking

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.

Together Process Kind Things Working

I was trying to find out what it was that everybody else understood without giving up my stubborn and hard-won lack of understanding.

Stubborn Giving Understanding Trying

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