I have spoken to expert audiences occasionally, but then no audience is expert over the — David Antin
I learned enough hebrew to stagger through a meaningless ceremony that I scarcely remember. — David Antin
I tended to emphasize the secular, the casual, the colloquial, the vernacular against the sacred. — David Antin
I was very committed to the process of composing, working at poems, putting things together and — David Antin
I’m aware of my audience in a way, and I do try to engage with them while I’m trying to go — David Antin
I’m standing up thinking. Anybody who wants to listen is welcome. If not, I’m happy to see them go. — David Antin
I’ve always had a strong feeling for the statue of liberty, because it became the statue of my personal liberty. — David Antin
It’s hard being a hostage in somebody else’s mouth – or a character in somebody else’s novel. — David Antin
My mother turned into a professional widow. She couldn’t understand why I wanted to be an engineer — David Antin
My rejection of the idea of entertainment in its current form is based on the audience that comes with it. — David Antin
Stories are different every time you tell them – they allow so many possible narratives. — David Antin
The ancient greek oral poets all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and — David Antin
The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and — David Antin
The sophists’ paradoxical talk pieces and their public debates were entertainment in 5th century greece. — David Antin
There is probably no oral society that fails to mark the spatial distinction of left and right — David Antin
There are editing procedures for talks just as there are editing procedures in jazz improvisation. — David Antin
When I got to the reading all the work, I was reduced to being an actor in an experimental play — David Antin
When my mother left her second husband, she wrote her autobiography and presented it to him for his approval. — David Antin
When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages — David Antin
While I’ve had a great distaste for what’s usually called song in modern poetry or for what’s — David Antin
You pay your money, you take your choice. I get the audience my language attracts and I lose the ones it repels. — David Antin