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I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. Its hard to imagi

I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. Its hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do. – David Antin

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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

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The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin. – David Antin

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While Ive had a great distaste for whats usually called song in modern poetry or for whats usually called music, I really dont think of speech as so far from song. – David Antin

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If you go into a bar in most places in America and even say the word poetry, youll probably get beaten up. But poetry is a really strong, beautiful form to me, and a lot of innovation in language comes from poetry. – Jim Jarmusch

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Today the U.S. is farther from being nourished by poetry than it was a hundred years ago, when books of poems were best-sellers. – James Broughton

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Poetry asks people to have values, form opinions, care about some other part of experience besides making money and being successful on the job. – Toi Derricotte

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Ive read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free. – John Barrymore

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