I learned enough Hebrew to stagger through a meaningless ceremony that I scarcely remember. Download Download Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Rotate quotes ceremony hebrew learn
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 binocularsbrownlie Change image and share on social
I'm standing up thinking. Anybody who wants to listen is welcome. If not, I'm happy to see them go. David Antin happylistenstand Change image and share on social
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. David Antin collegecomefernando Change image and share on social
New poems no longer come to me with their prodigies of metaphor and assonance. Prose endures. I feel the circles grow smaller, and old age is a ceremony of losses, which is, on the whole, preferable to dying at forty-seven or fifty-two. Donald Hall ageassonanceceremony share on social
If I'm serious, yes, I'd like to have done what Shakespeare did... to act and write. You learn so much from acting. One of our great writers, Alan Bennett, does both supremely well. When I write a story, I tend to speak it aloud as I'm writing it. Michael Morpurgo actalanaloud share on social
People think of black English as ungrammatical, but it bears the same relationship to standard English as contemporary Hebrew does to ancient Hebrew. John McWhorter ancientbearblack Change image and share on social