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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

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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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Poetry
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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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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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Experience
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Other Quotes from
Future
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I can imagine a future in which real books will exist but in a more limited, particular way. – Susan Orlean

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Future

Life is a series of collisions with the future it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be. – Jose Ortega y Gasset

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Future

The people in charge, globally, are maniacs. They are maniacs, and unless we do something about it these people are going to deprive us of a future. – Thom Yorke

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Future

There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future. – Herman Melville

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Future

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You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul. – Swami Vivekananda

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Coincidences are little hellos from heaven. – Theresa Caputo, Long Island Medium [S7, E5, 2016]

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Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats. – Marge Piercy

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Ive been a very lucky guy. I played on championship teams. I played for Canada. Ive won some awards and Im very proud of those accomplishments. But I dont think theres anything greater than to come home and to be recognized at home. This is the pinnacle. – Bobby Orr

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