53 Quotes by David Antin

There is probably no oral society that fails to mark the spatial distinction of left and right, peculiar as this distinction may be.

When my mother left her second husband, she wrote her autobiography and presented it to him for his approval.

While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song.

I learned enough Hebrew to stagger through a meaningless ceremony that I scarcely remember.

I tended to emphasize the secular, the casual, the colloquial, the vernacular against the sacred.

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

My rejection of the idea of entertainment in its current form is based on the audience that comes with it.

My way of thinking is very particular and concrete. It doesn't follow a continuous path.

When I got to the reading all the work, I was reduced to being an actor in an experimental play that I'd already written. And I didn't want to be an actor.