Frank Bidart quotes
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“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.”
-- Frank BidartSource : Frank Bidart (2002). “Music Like Dirt”, p.14, Sarabande Books
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“We fill pre-existing forms and when we fill them we change them and are changed.”
-- Frank BidartSource : Frank Bidart (2017). “Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016”, p.275, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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“Making is the mirror in which we see ourselves.”
-- Frank BidartSource : Frank Bidart (2002). “Music Like Dirt”, p.14, Sarabande Books
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“Once you reach what is / inside it is outside.”
-- Frank BidartSource : Frank Bidart (2017). “Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016”, p.706, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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“To make a film you have to dream a film... that's true of poetry as well.”
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“Earth you know is round but seems flat. // You can't trust / your senses.”
-- Frank BidartSource : Frank Bidart (2014). “Metaphysical Dog: Poems”, p.22, Macmillan
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“Play, and escaping the ideology one grew up in, is freedom.”
-- Frank Bidart
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Source : A. J. Jacobs (2011). “A.J. Jacobs Omnibus: The Know-It-All, The Year of Living Biblically, My Life as an Experiment”, p.707, Simon and Schuster
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Source : A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers
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Source : "Ştiinţa antisemitismului ("The Science of Anti-Semitism")". "Apararea Nationala" ("The National Defense") No. 16, Nov. 15, 1922.
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“I love it when the Bible gives Emily Post-like tips that are both wise and easy to follow.”
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“Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals”
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“Money means better meals at better places.”
Source : "The Enthusiasms of Alison Brie". Interview with Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. April 15, 2013.
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“Wine makes every meal an occasion, every table more elegant, every day more civilized.”
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