4 quotes by David Antin

“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

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“The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin.” — David Antin

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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.” — David Antin

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“I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.” — David Antin

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