Quotes By David Antin

The Sophists' paradoxical talk pieces and their public debates were entertainment in 5th century Greece. And in that world, Socrates was an entertainer.

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.

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.

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.

Children frequently sing meaningful phrases to themselves over and over again before they learn to make a distinction between singing and saying.

It's hard being a hostage in somebody else's mouth - or a character in somebody else's novel.