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David Antin Quotes

American - Poet | February 1, 1932 -

I wanted to be an inventor, whatever I thought that meant then. I guess I was thinking of Edison or maybe James Watt. Or maybe even Newton.

Thinking Thought Whatever Even Guess

I reserve the right to tell shaggy dog stories or even common jokes as part of what I'm doing. I don't give a damn if half the audience walks out.

Dog Doing Damn Right Out Jokes

I learned enough Hebrew to stagger through a meaningless ceremony that I scarcely remember.

Enough Remember Through Meaningless

I have spoken to expert audiences occasionally, but then no audience is expert over the whole range of things I want to explore.

Want Explore Over Expert Audience

I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.

Poetry Thought Remember Write Hard

I had no idea where these kids at a small private college in the San Fernando Valley were coming from, why they were coming to hear me, or what they needed to know.

College Me Small Know Why Coming

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.

Writing Think Thinking Understand

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

Long I Can Keep Closer Than Prose

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

Language Entertainment Protect May

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

Song Circles Like Lyrics Text Any

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.

Real Out Fortune Idea Made Disney

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

Children Singing Saying Learn Over

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