Top 9 Quotes & Sayings by Frank Bidart

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American academic Frank Bidart.
Last updated on September 17, 2024.
Frank Bidart

Frank Bidart is an American academic and poet, and a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

Insanity is the insistence on meaning.
We fill pre-existing forms and when we fill them we change them and are changed.
To make a film you have to dream a film... that's true of poetry as well. — © Frank Bidart
To make a film you have to dream a film... that's true of poetry as well.
Earth you know is round but seems flat. // You can't trust / your senses.
Once you reach what is / inside it is outside.
Play, and escaping the ideology one grew up in, is freedom.
We live in a hell of opinions.
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.
Making is the mirror in which we see ourselves.
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