Quote by David Antin
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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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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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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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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A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself. – E.M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951

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America was based on a poetic vision. What will happen when it loses its poetry? – Azar Nafisi

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Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved. – Jose Ortega y Gasset

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