Children frequently sing meaningful phrases to themselves over and over again before they learn to make a distinction between singing and saying. David Antin Read Quote
Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman’s idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman’s idea of the real. David Antin Read Quote
I didn’t think about whether I was writing poems. I was thinking. And the more I was thinking, the more there was I didn’t understand. David Antin Read Quote
There is probably no oral society that fails to mark the spatial distinction of left and right, peculiar as this distinction may be. David Antin Read Quote
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. David Antin Read Quote
There are editing procedures for talks just as there are editing procedures in jazz improvisation. David Antin Read Quote
The Sophists’ paradoxical talk pieces and their public debates were entertainment in 5th century Greece. And in that world, Socrates was an entertainer. David Antin Read Quote
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 Read Quote