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David Antin

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

David Antin, American Poet
Hebrew, Ceremony
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"I learned enough Hebrew to stagger through a meaningless ceremony that I scarcely remember."

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

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Hebrew, Ceremony

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"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."
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"My rejection of the idea of entertainment in its current form is based on the audience that comes with it."
Creativity, Idea, Entertainment, Rejection
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"I had no idea where these kids at a small private college in the San Fernando Valley were coming from, why they were coming to hear me, or what they needed to know."
Creativity, Idea, College, Kids
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"It's hard being a hostage in somebody else's mouth - or a character in somebody else's novel."
Character, Being
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"The ancient Greek oral poets all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the Muse to help them remember."
Poet, Anxiety, Help, Memories, Poems
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"I reserve the right to tell shaggy dog stories or even common jokes as part of what I'm doing. I don't give a damn if half the audience walks out."
Shaggy, Jokes, Right
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"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."
Society, Future, Past, Present
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"I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James."
Prose,
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"I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do."
Poetry, Thought
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"My way of thinking is very particular and concrete. It doesn't follow a continuous path."
Thinking,
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