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.

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

Insanity is the insistence on meaning.

We live in a hell of opinions.

Once you reach what is / inside it is outside.

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

Making is the mirror in which we see ourselves.

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

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