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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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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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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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