9 Quotes & Sayings By Frank Bidart

Frank Bidart is Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and playwright. He has published six volumes of poetry, three plays, a book of essays, and a biography of his father, a noted literary critic. In 2002, he was awarded the National Book Award for his collection After the War, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award. His latest book is The Future of the Past: Selected Poems 1977-2001.

Though the body is itsgenesis, a poem is the vision...
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Though the body is itsgenesis, a poem is the vision of a process Carved in space, vision your poor eye's singlearmor against winter spring summer fall Frank Bidart
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Drugged to sleep by repetition of the diurnalround, the monotonous sorrow of the finite, within       I am awakerepairing in dirt the frayed immaculate threadforced by being to watch the birth of suns Frank Bidart
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The stratagems by which briefly youameliorated, even seeminglyuntwisted what still twists within you –you loved their taste and lay thereon your sidenursing like a puppy. Frank Bidart
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After sex & metaphysics, –… what? What you have made. Frank Bidart
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Horrible the fate of the advice-giver in our culture: to repeat oneself in a thousand contexts until death, or irrelevance.            *I abjure advice-giver. Frank Bidart
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Though the body is itsgenesis, a poem is the vision of a p Frank Bidart
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I'm not a fool, I knew from the beginningwhat couldn't happen. What couldn't Frank Bidart
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Understand that when the beast within yousucceeds again in paralyzing into unendingincompletion whatever you again had the temerity totry to makeits triumph is made sweeter by confirmation of itsrectitude. It knows that it aloneknows you. Frank Bidart