David Antin Quotes

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

David Antin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 1, 1932

Topics

PoetryThoughtRememberWriteHard

It's financially advantageous to make a picture in Berlin, Germany. They have a very effective rebate system.

Joel Silver

PictureSystemMakeBerlinEffective

An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody who's kind of permanently there. And so living with them through the various teenage hopes and sorrows and joys was curiously enough a maturing experience for me.

Andrew Greeley

ExperienceMeEnoughKindLiving

True patriotism isn't cheap. It's about taking on a fair share of the burden of keeping America going.

Robert Reich

PatriotismAmericaBurdenTrueCheap

Life would have been easier for me if I had taken the path of least resistance.

Michael Gove

LifePathMeResistanceBeenWould

I want to be America's Margaret Thatcher. I will be the next Iron Lady.

Michele Bachmann

AmericaLadyWantWillNextIron

When we first started, we were a band from Athens and that was so off the map.

Michael Stipe

MapBandFirstAthensStartedOff

Sitting down for dinner not only helps you learn, but also teaches you how to listen - which I feel is the most important skill to have. I remember as a kid going around the table listening to everyone's day. It was hard to have the manners not to interrupt back then.

Michael Symon

DayDinnerListeningLearnRemember

I grew up in a town of 5,000, surrounded by cows and oil fields, but there was a lot of opportunity in my tiny little town.

Michael Lomenda

OpportunityOilUpLittleFields

People never confess to failure. They should.

Mo Ibrahim

FailurePeopleNeverShouldConfess

Country radio certainly widens the boundaries of what I can do. Other artists may do something more edgy that gets on radio and that opens the door for me to be more edgy, I think.

Clint Black

MeDoorThinkI CanCountryEdgy

Anyone can see why an elite athlete would want to leave a small, impoverished country where their skills were effectively uncashed winning lottery tickets. All they had to do was wash ashore almost anywhere else in the world and cash in. Yet the vast majority of Cuban boxers - and Cuban athletes in general - despite that incentive, stayed.

Brin-Jonathan Butler

WinningWorldSmallCountrySkills

Like every aspect of cancer I've weathered thus far, today's experience was not at all demoralizing, expensive or humiliating. No, it was just plain fun.

April Winchell

TodayExperienceFunExpensiveJust

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