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Frank Bidart Quotes

But being is making; not only large things, a family, a book, a business; but the shape we give this afternoon, a conversation between friends, a meal.

But being is making; not only large things, a family, a book, a business; but the shape we give this afternoon, a conversation between friends, a meal.

Frank Bidart
Book, Giving, Meals
Frank Bidart (2002). “Music Like Dirt”, p.14, Sarabande Books

We fill pre-existing forms and when we fill them we change them and are changed.

Frank Bidart
Form, Changed
Frank Bidart (2017). “Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016”, p.275, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Insanity is the insistence on meaning.

Frank Bidart
Insanity, Insistence

We live in a hell of opinions.

Frank Bidart
Opinion, Hell

Once you reach what is / inside it is outside.

Frank Bidart
Frank Bidart (2017). “Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016”, p.706, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Play, and escaping the ideology one grew up in, is freedom.

Frank Bidart
Escaping, Play, Grew Up

Making is the mirror in which we see ourselves.

Frank Bidart
Mirrors
Frank Bidart (2002). “Music Like Dirt”, p.14, Sarabande Books

To make a film you have to dream a film... that's true of poetry as well.

Frank Bidart
Dream, Film, Wells

Earth you know is round but seems flat. // You can't trust / your senses.

Frank Bidart
Earth, Flats, Senses
Frank Bidart (2014). “Metaphysical Dog: Poems”, p.22, Macmillan

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