Quotes By David Antin

I was very committed to the process of composing, working at poems, putting things together and taking them apart like some kind of experimental filmmaker.

I'm standing up thinking. Anybody who wants to listen is welcome. If not, I'm happy to see them go.

I was trying to find out what it was that everybody else understood without giving up my stubborn and hard-won lack of understanding.

I've always had a strong feeling for the Statue of Liberty, because it became the statue of my personal liberty.

From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us.

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.

A myth is the name of a terrible lie told by a smelly little brown person to a man in a white suit with a pair of binoculars.