“We fill pre-existing forms and when we fill them change them and are changed.” — Frank Bidart Changed Copy Share Image
“up or down from the infinite C E N T E R B R I M M I N G at the… — Frank Bidart Time Copy Share Image
“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… — Frank Bidart Business Copy Share Image
“drugged to sleep by repetition of the diurnal round, the monotonous sorrow of the finite, within I am awake… — Frank Bidart Art Copy Share Image
“The gestures poems make are the same as the gestures of ritual injunction — curse; exorcism; prayer; underlying everything perhaps, the attempt… — Frank Bidart Poetry Copy Share Image
“—No one knows why. Perhaps her mind, ravenous, still insatiable, sensed that to struggle with the shreds of a voice must make… — Frank Bidart Art Copy Share Image
But being is making; not only large things, a family, a book, a business; but the shape we give this afternoon, a… — Frank Bidart Afternoon Copy Share Image
Earth you know is round but seems flat. // You can't trust / your senses. — Frank Bidart Earth Copy Share Image
“Sweet fiction, in which bravado and despair beckon from a cold panache, in which the protected essential self suffers flashes of its… — Frank Bidart Writing Copy Share Image
“Horrible the fate of the advice-giver in our culture: to repeat oneself in a thousand contexts until death, or irrelevance. * I… — Frank Bidart Advice Copy Share Image
“The stratagems by which briefly you ameliorated, even seemingly untwisted what still twists within you — you loved their taste and lay… — Frank Bidart Art Copy Share Image
“(Poem on anorexic): The only way to escape the history of styles is not to have a body.” — Frank Bidart Fashion Copy Share Image
“then the voice in my head said WHETHER YOU LOVE WHAT YOU LOVE OR LIVE IN DIVIDED CEASELESS REVOLT AGAINST IT WHAT… — Frank Bidart Fate Copy Share Image
“Though the body is its genesis, a poem is the vision of a process Out of ceaseless motion in edgeless space Carved… — Frank Bidart Dreams Copy Share Image
“Wanting to be a movie star....answering an ad at ten or eleven. You made your mother drive you to Hollywood.” — Frank Bidart Movie Copy Share Image
“Song You know that it is there, lair where the bear ceases for a time even to exist. Crawl in. You have… — Frank Bidart Cease to exist Copy Share Image
“The Old Man at the Wheel Measured against the immeasurable universe, no word you have spoken brought light. Brought light to what,… — Frank Bidart Old man Copy Share Image
To make a film you have to dream a film... that's true of poetry as well. — Frank Bidart Cinema Copy Share Image
“Understand that when the beast within you succeeds again in paralyzing into unending incompletion whatever you again had the temerity to try… — Frank Bidart Beast within Copy Share Image
“The law is that you must live in the house you have built. The law is absurd: it is written down nowhere.… — Frank Bidart Crime Copy Share Image
