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I tended to emphasize the secular, the casual, the colloquial, the vernacular against the sacred.

~David Antin

Topics: Against Casual Emphasize Sacred Secular Vernacular

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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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Topics: Always Became Because Feeling Had Liberty Personal Statue Statue Of Liberty Strong Strong Feeling

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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.

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Topics: About Always Ancient Anxiety Began Deficiencies Greek Had Help Memories Muse Oral Poems Poets Praying Remember Them

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

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Topics: Fundamental Pursuit Questions Sure Theory Unless

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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.

~David Antin

Topics: Attracts Audience Choice Get Language Lose Money Pay Take You Your

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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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Topics: Distaste Far Great Had Modern Music Poetry Really Song Speech Think While

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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.

~David Antin

Topics: Common George Gives Me Other Performers Precision Script Something Taste Think Underlying Use While I Think

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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.

~David Antin

Topics: Casual Colored Develop Differently Experience Family Fluency Grow Grow Up Kind Languages Seem Though Transparent Up You

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When my mother left her second husband, she wrote her autobiography and presented it to him for his approval.

~David Antin

Topics: Approval Autobiography Her Him His Husband Left Mother Presented Second She Wrote

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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.

~David Antin

Topics: Actor Being Experimental Got Play Reading Reduced Want Work Written

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: February 1st, 1932

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