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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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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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Bad, quirky poetry might be better than some of the good stuff, because it really comes from the heart. – Cheryl Hines

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When I really want to be soothed and reminded of why people bother to fiddle with sentences, I often read poetry. – Nicholson Baker

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Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique. – Karl Shapiro

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The completely solitary self: thats where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also. – Seamus Heaney

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