"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 "There is probably no oral society that fails to mark the spatial distinction of left and right, peculiar as this distinction may be." "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." "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." More In Poetry "There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry."― Emily Dickinson "For while the subjects of poetry are few and recurrent, the moods of man are infinitely various and unstable. It is the same in all arts."― John Drinkwater "The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry."― Bertrand Russell