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Quote by David Antin
While Ive had a great distaste for whats usually called song in mo

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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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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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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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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I think that great poetry is the most interesting and complex use of the poets language at that point in history, and so its even more exciting when you read a poet like Yeats, almost 100 years old now, and you think that perhaps no one can really top that. – Diane Wakoski

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Im quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent. – Marguerite Young

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No, what I should really like to do right now, in the full blaze of lights, before this illustrious assembly, is to shower every one of you with gifts, with flowers, with offerings of poetry – to be young once more, to ride on the crest of the wave. – Knut Hamsun

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Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality. – James Joyce

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A human life is a story told by God. – Hans Christian Andersen

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