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 Bidart

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

Frank Bidart

Lie to yourself about this and you will
forever lie about everything.
Everybody already knows everything
so you can
lie to them. That's what they want.
But lie to yourself, what you will
lose is yourself. Then you
turn into them.

Frank Bidart

The need for the past
is so much at the center of my life
I write this poem to record my discovery of it,
my reconciliation.

Frank Bidart

When I recall that at the fourth hour
of the night, watched by shining stars,
LOVE at last became incarnate,
the memory is horror.

Frank Bidart

Frank Bidart

Frank Bidart

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Born: May 27, 1939 (age 86)

Bio: Frank Bidart is an American academic and poet, and a three time Pulitzer Prize finalist in poetry.

Known for:

Metaphysical Dog (2013)
Watching the Spring Festival (2008)
In the western night (1990)
Star Dust (2005)
Music like Dirt (2002)

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