"I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It’s hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do." ― David Antin Topic(s): Poetry More From David Antin "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." "There is probably no oral society that fails to mark the spatial distinction of left and right, peculiar as this distinction may be." "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." More In Poetry "In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre; they are, at the same time, poetry, criticism, narrative, drama, etc."― Juan Goytisolo "So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you."― Lucius Annaeus Seneca "When you’re young, you don’t think very far ahead. You just think in terms of the next day, the next week, the next competition. You don’t think about injuries that could threaten your long-term health."― Katarina Witt