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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.

~David Antin

Topics: About Audience Aware Believe Business Engage Focus Go Help Me Providing Them Thinking Try Trying Way While I Believe

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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.

~David Antin

Topics: Apart Committed Composing Experimental Filmmaker Kind Like Poems Process Putting Some Taking Them Things Together Very Working

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

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Topics: Else Everybody Everybody Else Find Giving Giving Up Lack Out Stubborn Trying Understanding Understood Up Without

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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.

~David Antin

Topics: Edison Even Guess Inventor James Maybe Meant Newton Then Thinking Thought Wanted Whatever

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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.

~David Antin

Topics: Audience Common Damn Dog Doing Even Give Half Jokes Out Part Reserve Right Stories Tell Walks

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

~David Antin

Topics: Ceremony Enough Hebrew Learned Meaningless Remember Scarcely Through

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

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Topics: Audience Audiences Expert Explore Occasionally Over Range Spoken Then Things Want Whole

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

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Topics: Could Hard Hardly How Imagine Poetry Remember Started Thought Write

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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.

~David Antin

Topics: College Coming Had Hear Idea Kids Know Me Needed No Idea Private San Small Valley Were Where Why

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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.

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Topics: About More Poems Think Thinking Understand Whether Writing

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: February 1st, 1932

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