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.

  Frank Bidart

  Book, Giving, Meals

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

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• 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

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• Insanity is the insistence on meaning.

  Frank Bidart

  Insanity, Insistence

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• We live in a hell of opinions.

  Frank Bidart

  Opinion, Hell

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

  Frank Bidart

  Escaping, Play, Grew Up

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• Making is the mirror in which we see ourselves.

  Frank Bidart

  Mirrors

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

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

  Frank Bidart

  Dream, Film, Wells

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• 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

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• 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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