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David Antin
American Poet
Born: Feb 1, 1932
Entertainment Me Think Thinking Thought You
Related authors: Edgar Allan Poe Emily Dickinson Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Maya Angelou Ralph Waldo Emerson Robert Frost T. S. Eliot Walt Whitman
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
Thought Whatever Thinking Guess Inventor Edison Maybe James Wanted Then Newton Meant Even
I tended to emphasize the secular, the casual, the colloquial, the vernacular against the sacred. David Antin
Secular Casual Sacred Emphasize Vernacular Against
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. David Antin
Memories Anxiety Remember Deficiencies Ancient About Poems Poets Had Always Praying Began Greek Oral Them Help Muse
I have spoken to expert audiences occasionally, but then no audience is expert over the whole range of things I want to explore. David Antin
Range Spoken Over Occasionally Audience Audiences Want Expert Then Explore Whole Things
I am quite unsatisfied by the distinctions between the oral and literate. David Antin
Distinctions Unsatisfied Between Am Oral Quite Literate
From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us. David Antin
Entertainment Language Entertainment Industry Protect Industry Gods May Us
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
Made Out Inventing Idea Real Contradictory Disney Fortune Businessman Imaginary
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
Man Lie Myth White Brown Name Smelly Terrible Person Little Pair Binoculars Suit
You pay your money, you take your choice. I get the audience my language attracts and I lose the ones it repels. David Antin
You Money Language Lose Pay Take Attracts Audience Get Choice Your
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
Music Great Song Think Distaste Poetry Had Modern Modern Poetry While Far Really Speech
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
Family You Experience Fluency Though Kind Seem Casual Colored Develop Up Languages Transparent Grow Grow Up Differently
There is probably no oral society that fails to mark the spatial distinction of left and right, peculiar as this distinction may be. David Antin
Society Mark Distinction Fails Left Oral May Spatial Right Peculiar
It's hard being a hostage in somebody else's mouth - or a character in somebody else's novel. David Antin
Character Somebody Mouth Else Hostage Being Hard Novel
I'm standing up thinking. Anybody who wants to listen is welcome. If not, I'm happy to see them go. David Antin
Welcome Happy Thinking See Go Up Listen Anybody Wants Them Standing Who Standing Up
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
Together Kind Composing Some Poems Taking Putting Like Very Committed Experimental Process Apart Them Working Things Filmmaker
I was trying to find out what it was that everybody else understood without giving up my stubborn and hard-won lack of understanding. David Antin
Giving Giving Up Understanding Everybody Everybody Else Else Out Find Stubborn Without Understood Up Trying Lack

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