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Quote by David Antin
When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of c

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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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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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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Future
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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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Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience. – Denis Waitley

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Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure. – John Stuart Mill

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The difference between education and know-how is that one you pay for, the other you charge for. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Im not particularly precious about the theatrical experience any more. – Edward Norton

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My creed is that: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so. – Robert Green Ingersoll

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