Quotes by David Antin

David Antin

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.

Lying

Men

White

An art machine is a system whose parts when put in motion act upon each other in such a way as to cause you to see things differently

Art

Machines

Way

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

Entertainment

Language

May

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

Distinction

Unsatisfied

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.

Thinking

Writing

Writing Poems

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.

College

Ideas

Kids

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

Imagine

Remember

Writing

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

Experts

Range

Want

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.

Dog

Giving

Stories

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

Casual

Sacred

Secular

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Anxiety

Appreciate

Art

Casual

Character

College

Different

Distinction

Dog

Editing

Entertainment

Experts

Fundamentals

Giving

Giving Up

Greek

Husband

Ideas

Imagine

Jazz Improvisation

Kids

Kind

Language

Lying

Machines

May

Memories

Men

Mother

Mouths

Narrative

Novel

Path

Procedures

Process

Pursuit

Range

Remember

Sacred

Secular

Stories

Theory

Thinking

Together

Trying

Understanding

Unsatisfied

Want

Way

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Quotes by David Antin

David Antin

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.

An art machine is a system whose parts when put in motion act upon each other in such a way as to cause you to see things differently

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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