I wanted to be an inventor, whatever I thought that meant then. I guess I was thinking of Edison or maybe James Watt. Or maybe even Newton.
From David Antin
I've always had a strong feeling for the Statue of Liberty, because it became the statue of my personal liberty.
You pay your money, you take your choice. I get the audience my language attracts and I lose the ones it repels.
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.
While I don't script and I don't use other performers, I think my taste for underlying precision gives me something in common with Allan and George Brecht.
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.
When my mother left her second husband, she wrote her autobiography and presented it to him for his approval.
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.
There is probably no oral society that fails to mark the spatial distinction of left and right, peculiar as this distinction may be.
There are editing procedures for talks just as there are editing procedures in jazz improvisation.
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