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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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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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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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Each of us brings to our job, whatever it is, our lifetime of experience and our values. – Sandra Day OConnor

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Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint it or sculpt it. You literally mold the experience the way you want. Its therapy. – Erykah Badu

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Ive learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. – Martha Washington

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Also, I knew that the impact of Motorcycle Diaries was going to be so resonant for all of us who went through the experience of making it that I didnt want to do anything that could reflect it. – Walter Salles

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