Top 37 Quotes by David Antin

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

Stories are different every time you tell them - they allow so many possible narratives.

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.

I'm standing up thinking. Anybody who wants to listen is welcome. If not, I'm happy to see them go.

My way of thinking is very particular and concrete. It doesn't follow a continuous path.

It's hard being a hostage in somebody else's mouth - or a character in somebody else's novel.

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

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.

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.