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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.


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

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



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Insanity is the insistence on meaning.



We live in a hell of opinions.

We live in a hell of opinions.



Once you reach what is / inside it is outside.

Once you reach what is / inside it is outside.



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

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



Making is the mirror in which we see ourselves.

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.

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.

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



Though the body is itsgenesis, a poem is the vision of a processCarved in space, vision your poor eye's singlearmor against winter spring summer fall

Though the body is itsgenesis, a poem is the vision of a processCarved in space, vision your poor eye's singlearmor against winter spring summer fall



drugged to sleep by repetition of the diurnalround, the monotonous sorrow of the finite, within       I am awakerepairing in dirt the frayed immaculate threadforced by being to watch the birth of suns

drugged to sleep by repetition of the diurnalround, the monotonous sorrow of the finite, within       I am awakerepairing in dirt the frayed immaculate threadforced by being to watch the birth of suns





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