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
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
I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. Its hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do. – David Antin
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
Sometimes when we weep in the movies we weep for ourselves or for a life unlived. Or we even go to the movies because we want to resist the emotion thats there in front of us. I think there is always a catharsis that I look for and that makes the movie experience worthwhile. – Edward Zwick