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David Antin Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Long I Can Keep Closer Than Prose

Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.

Love Love Is You Betrayal Whatever

We are under God's power, and we can do nothing but by the power of God, and woe shall hereafter be to us if we abuse this power.

God Power Nothing Abuse Us Woe

My poems always begin with a metaphor, but my way into the metaphor may be a word, an image, even a sound. And I rarely know the nature of the metaphor when I begin to write, but there is an attentiveness that a writer develops, a sudden alertness that is much like the feel of a fish brushing against a hook.

Nature Feel Fish Know Way Image

Then came a big strike. About 100 girls went out. The result was a victory, which netted us - I mean the girls - $2 increase in our wages on the average.

Rose Schneiderman

Victory Result Strike Mean Out Big

Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.

Life Where Hated Most Obstinate

I think it all comes down to relationships - how I treat my wife, how I treat my kids, how I treat the guys at the grocery store, all aspects of every day, what I'm involved in.

Michael W. Smith

Day Wife Treat Think Every Day Down

This does not come naturally. I have to work out 60 to 90 minutes at least five days a week and stick to a high- fiber, low-calorie eating plan.

Work Eating Plan Week Out High

I know what it's like to be in the closet! I know what it's like to be bullied and attacked because someone or some group thought I was different or below them... so, I'm coming out of the closet as an ally of equality for everyone; as an ally to hope.

Jason Alexander

Hope Equality Thought Someone Know

You just gotta do it, man. You can't count on the guy making the tackle in front of you.

Jason Pierre-Paul

Man You Count Guy Just Tackle

As far as writing, I like watching bad movies. Nothing stops me in my tracks more than watching a great film like 'The Godfather' or 'Dog Day Afternoon' or 'The Graduate.' You watch one of those, and you never want to write again. Whereas with bad movies, it makes you think, If that counts, I certainly could write.

Dog Great Day Me Writing Think

A lot of great authors are published before their time. That's not wrong; it's just the way it works.

Jonathan Galassi

Great Time Wrong Way Just Published

True terror is a language and a vision. There is a deep narrative structure to terrorist acts, and they infiltrate and alter consciousness in ways that writers used to aspire to.

Vision Deep Language True Structure

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