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

~David Antin

Topics: Closer Format Henry James Keep Laurence Long Manage Prose Than I Can

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I am quite unsatisfied by the distinctions between the oral and literate.

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Topics: Am Between Distinctions Literate Oral Quite Unsatisfied I Am

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

~David Antin

Topics: Entertainment Entertainment Industry Gods Industry Language May Protect Us

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

~David Antin

Topics: Any Centuries Circles Commonplace Like Literary Looked Lyrics Melodic Passed Setting Several Song Text

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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.

~David Antin

Topics: Businessman Contradictory Disney Fortune Idea Imaginary Inventing Made Out Real

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

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Topics: Again Before Between Children Distinction Frequently Learn Make Meaningful Over Phrases Saying Sing Singing Themselves

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A myth is the name of a terrible lie told by a smelly little brown person to a man in a white suit with a pair of binoculars.

~David Antin

Topics: Binoculars Brown Lie Little Man Myth Name Pair Person Smelly Suit Terrible White

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: February 1st, 1932

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