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David Antin

"There are editing procedures for talks just as there are editing procedures in jazz improvisation."

David Antin, American Poet
Editing, Jazz
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"I have like 250 letters that I have to whittle it down to 150. Only then do you have the whole overview of a book. When it was finally edited, at least my take was, everybody's lying. You know?"

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"There are editing procedures for talks just as there are editing procedures in jazz improvisation."

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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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"I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James."
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"The Sophists' paradoxical talk pieces and their public debates were entertainment in 5th century Greece. And in that world, Socrates was an entertainer."
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"I'm not sure what theory is, unless it's the pursuit of fundamental questions."
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"When my mother left her second husband, she wrote her autobiography and presented it to him for his approval."
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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."
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"For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting."
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"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."
Creativity, Idea, Disney, Fortune
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"A myth is the name of a terrible lie told by a smelly little brown person to a man in a white suit with a pair of binoculars."
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"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."
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