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> [“Horrible the fate of the advice-giver in our culture: to repeat oneself in a thousand contexts until death, or irrelevance. \* I abjure advice-giver.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-bidart/horrible-the-fate-of-the-advice-giver-in-our-culture-to-repeat/)

[Frank Bidart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-bidart/)

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## More by Frank Bidart

> [Play, and escaping the ideology one grew up in, is freedom.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-bidart/play-and-escaping-the-ideology-one-grew-up-in-is-freedom/)

[Frank Bidart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-bidart/)

> [“We fill pre-existing forms and when we fill them change them and are changed.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-bidart/we-fill-pre-existing-forms-and-when-we-fill-them-change-them-and-are/)

[Frank Bidart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-bidart/)

> [“up or down from the infinite C E N T E R B R I M M I N G at the winking rim…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-bidart/up-or-down-from-the-infinite-c-e-n-t-e-r-b-r-i-m-m-i-n-g-at-the/)

[Frank Bidart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-bidart/)

> [“I'm not a fool, I knew from the beginning what couldn't happen. What couldn't happen didn't. The enterprise is abandoned. But half our life…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-bidart/i-m-not-a-fool-i-knew-from-the-beginning-what-couldn-t-happen-what/)

[Frank Bidart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-bidart/)

> [“drugged to sleep by repetition of the diurnal round, the monotonous sorrow of the finite, within       I am awake repairing in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-bidart/drugged-to-sleep-by-repetition-of-the-diurnal-round-the-monotonous/)

[Frank Bidart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-bidart/)

> [“The gestures poems make are the same as the gestures of ritual injunction — curse; exorcism; prayer; underlying everything perhaps, the attempt to make…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-bidart/the-gestures-poems-make-are-the-same-as-the-gestures-of-ritual/)

[Frank Bidart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-bidart/)

> [“—No one knows why. Perhaps her mind, ravenous, still insatiable, sensed that to struggle with the shreds of a voice must make her artistry…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-bidart/no-one-knows-why-perhaps-her-mind-ravenous-still-insatiable-sensed/)

[Frank Bidart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-bidart/)

> [Once you reach what is / inside it is outside.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-bidart/once-you-reach-what-is-inside-it-is-outside/)

[Frank Bidart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-bidart/)

> [But being is making; not only large things, a family, a book, a business; but the shape we give this afternoon, a conversation between…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-bidart/but-being-is-making-not-only-large-things-a-family-a-book-a-business/)

[Frank Bidart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-bidart/)

> [We live in a hell of opinions.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-bidart/we-live-in-a-hell-of-opinions/)

[Frank Bidart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-bidart/)

> [Earth you know is round but seems flat. // You can't trust / your senses.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-bidart/earth-you-know-is-round-but-seems-flat-you-can-t-trust-your-senses/)

[Frank Bidart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-bidart/)

> [“Sweet fiction, in which bravado and despair beckon from a cold panache, in which the protected essential self suffers flashes of its existence to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-bidart/sweet-fiction-in-which-bravado-and-despair-beckon-from-a-cold-panache/)

[Frank Bidart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-bidart/)

> [“Horrible the fate of the advice-giver in our culture: to repeat oneself in a thousand contexts until death, or irrelevance. \* I abjure advice-giver.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-bidart/horrible-the-fate-of-the-advice-giver-in-our-culture-to-repeat/)

[Frank Bidart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-bidart/)

> [“The stratagems by which briefly you ameliorated, even seemingly untwisted what still twists within you — you loved their taste and lay there on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-bidart/the-stratagems-by-which-briefly-you-ameliorated-even-seemingly/)

[Frank Bidart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-bidart/)

> [“(Poem on anorexic): The only way to escape the history of styles is not to have a body.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-bidart/poem-on-anorexic-the-only-way-to-escape-the-history-of-styles-is-not/)

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