quotes about Sign Sayings

“The poet must work with brush and paper,but this is not what makes the poem. A man does not go in search of a poem - the poem comes in search of him.”

“I see the crowd singing 'Rock 'N Roll' or 'Back Road' at my concerts... they are anthems and they lift up your life.”

“It's very hard to dramatise something factual and not make it look overdone, but also not to make it look so under-dramatised that it's dull.”

“There were times when I had maybe a couple of hundred dollars, and times I made myself think I was on top of the world.”

“Imagine! People are not volunteering to go to foreign countries and die the way they used to! Imagine that!”

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

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

“There is a hidden agenda in the fragility of romance.”

“That person has to be accountable for himself. I think thats what we have to do in society today is to be accountable for yourself. I think we have the tendency to always want to live someone elses life.”

“My happiest hours are those in which I think nothing, want nothing, when I do not even dream, but lose myself in some spurious vegetable torpor, moss growing on the surface of life. Without a trace of bitterness I savour my absurd awareness of being nothing, a mere foretaste of death and extinction.”

“If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.”