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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More quotes by David Antin
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.