Quote by David Antin
The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly run

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

Other quotes by David Antin

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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Poetry
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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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Experience
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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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Poetry
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Future
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While everyone else is thinking about economics and politics, executive salaries and the future of the euro, do the opposite, even if its hard. Invest in the spirit. – Jonathan Sacks

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Future

You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future. – Warren G. Bennis

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We must not become the new puritans and reject our society. We must address and master the future together. It can be done if we restore the belief that we share a sense of national community, that we share a common national endeavor. It can be done. – Barbara Jordan

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Future

I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States. – Harold Bloom

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Future

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