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.”
-- Frank Bidart

Source : Frank Bidart (2002). “Music Like Dirt”, p.14, Sarabande Books

#Book Quotes #Giving Quotes #Meals Quotes

“We fill pre-existing forms and when we fill them we change them and are changed.”
-- Frank Bidart

Source : Frank Bidart (2017). “Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016”, p.275, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

#Form Quotes #Changed Quotes

“We live in a hell of opinions.”
-- Frank Bidart

#Opinion Quotes #Hell Quotes

“Making is the mirror in which we see ourselves.”
-- Frank Bidart

Source : Frank Bidart (2002). “Music Like Dirt”, p.14, Sarabande Books

#Mirrors Quotes

“Once you reach what is / inside it is outside.”
-- Frank Bidart

Source : Frank Bidart (2017). “Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016”, p.706, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

“To make a film you have to dream a film... that's true of poetry as well.”
-- Frank Bidart

#Dream Quotes #Film Quotes #Wells Quotes

“Earth you know is round but seems flat. // You can't trust / your senses.”
-- Frank Bidart

Source : Frank Bidart (2014). “Metaphysical Dog: Poems”, p.22, Macmillan

#Earth Quotes #Flats Quotes

“Insanity is the insistence on meaning.”
-- Frank Bidart

#Insanity Quotes #Insistence Quotes

“Play, and escaping the ideology one grew up in, is freedom.”
-- Frank Bidart

#Escaping Quotes #Play Quotes #Grew Up Quotes

“The selection of a book-plate is such a serious matter.”

“In very clear and available language, this book details how to recognize the inner critic and how to deal effectively with it. Byron Brown's presentation is useful for any individual who wishes to be free from the inner suffering and coercion of this ancient foe of our humanity, but it is specifically directed to those interested and engaged in the inner journey toward realization and enlightenment.”

“It comes back to the old question: How can the Bible be so wise in some places and so barbaric in others? And why should we put any faith in a book that includes such brutality?”

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

“God never can use any man very much till he has grace enough to forget himself entirely while doing God's work; for He will not give His glory to another nor share with the most valued instrument the praise that belongs to Jesus Christ alone.”

“Begin to rejoice in the Lord, and your bones will flourish like an herb, and your cheeks will glow with the bloom of health and freshness. Worry, fear, distrust, care-all are poisonous! Joy is balm and healing, and if you will but rejoice, God will give power.”

Source : A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers

“The science of anti-Semitism finally comes to explain this phenomenon, enlightening further the consciousness of people, fully satisfying their instinct and its violent eruptions thus legitimized by revealing their cause - the parasitism of the Jews. Thus it gives us the formula of the scientific solution for the problem of Judaism, which in order to realize we have only to apply.”

Source : "Ştiinţa antisemitismului ("The Science of Anti-Semitism")". "Apararea Nationala" ("The National Defense") No. 16, Nov. 15, 1922.

“I love it when the Bible gives Emily Post-like tips that are both wise and easy to follow.”

“Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals”

“Money means better meals at better places.”

Source : "The Enthusiasms of Alison Brie". Interview with Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. April 15, 2013.

“Wine makes every meal an occasion, every table more elegant, every day more civilized.”