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. David Antin on 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. David Antin on future
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. David Antin on poetry
I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do. David Antin on poetry