David Antin

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

Stories are different every time you tell them - they allow so many possible narratives. ”

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. ”

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. ”

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