Quotes About Bidart

#1. Figs are delicious with soft cheese and ham,
Toast is quite scrumptious with butter and jam,
Eggs are improved by parsley and salt,
But milkshakes are best with strawberries and malt.

Angelica Banks

#2. 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

#3. Once you reach what is / inside it is outside.

Frank Bidart

#4. I'm a very proud actor.

F. Murray Abraham

#5. Drugged to sleep by repetition of the diurnal
round, the monotonous sorrow of the finite,
within I am awake
repairing in dirt the frayed immaculate thread
forced by being to watch the birth of suns

Frank Bidart

#6. We fill pre-existing forms and when we fill them change them and are changed.

Frank Bidart

#7. For 1,300 days of Sarajevo's drama, important people in the world who were supposed to act kept their eyes closed, ... But not you. You were not silent. Your voice was clear.

Alijia Izetbegovic

#8. And if my Sea od Tranquility were real, it would be this place, here, with him.
I don't say anything right away, because I just want one minute to look at him before I give him my last secret.
And then I tell him.
Your garage.

Katja Millay

#9. Insanity is the insistence on meaning.

Frank Bidart

#10. The stratagems by which briefly you
ameliorated, even seemingly
untwisted what still twists within you
you loved their taste and lay there
on your side
nursing like a puppy.

Frank Bidart

#11. Play, and escaping the ideology one grew up in, is freedom.

Frank Bidart

#12. College campuses are populated by and endless throng of happy, dancing, fully conversational creatures who seem to exist from the sole purpose of reinforcing your utter alienation. I tried to take comfort in the fact that hell is other people and ultimately we are alone anyway.

Jacqueline Novak

#13. To make a film you have to dream a film ... that's true of poetry as well.

Frank Bidart

#14. Though the body is its
genesis, a poem is the vision of a process
Out of ceaseless motion in edgeless space
Carved in space, vision your poor eye's single
armor against winter spring summer fall

Frank Bidart

#15. We live in a hell of opinions.

Frank Bidart

#16. Understand that when the beast within you
succeeds again in paralyzing into unending
incompletion whatever you again had the temerity to
try to make
its triumph is made sweeter by confirmation of its
rectitude. It knows that it alone
knows you.

Frank Bidart

#17. Wanting to be a movie star ... answering an ad at ten or eleven. You made your mother drive you to Hollywood.

Frank Bidart

#18. I'm not motivated by money or power or fame. In the end, it doesn't bring much happiness. The only thing that is driving me is self-satisfaction, self-validation.

William Clay Ford Jr.

#19. Up or down from the infinite C E N T E R
B R I M M I N G at the winking rim of time
the voice in my head said
LOVE IS THE DISTANCE
BETWEEN YOU AND WHAT YOU LOVE

Frank Bidart

#20. In simple terms, I realised that food is the most fundamental need for a person. In difficult economic times, people's priorities change, and they might be willing to do something that secures for them the lowest possible weekly food bill.

Stelios Haji-Ioannou

#21. Id Faciam
What I hate I love. Ask the crucified hand that holds
the nail that now is driven into itself, why.

Catullus

#22. Seersucker and khaki suits are the key to looking put-together in the summer. I also wear shorts year-round. And I would never say never, but I don't wear sandals. With shorts, it's wing tips and tennis socks.

Thom Browne

#23. 'Dark Knight' shot in London and Chicago, and we were on that for so long.

Chin Han

#24. In the girls' bathroom, I run the water hot and hold my hands under it until I feel

Courtney Summers

#25. To know where one is going and what one wishes - this is order ... to organize one's life to distribute one's time ... all this belong to and is included in the word order.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#26. The law is that you
must live
in the house you have built.
The law is absurd: it is
written down nowhere.
You are uncertain what crime
is, though each life writhing to
elude what it has made
feels like punishment.

Frank Bidart

#27. There was a languid feel to the night air the following evening. The breeze was

Nicholas Sparks

#28. Confidentiality and transparency are not mutually exclusive, but rather two sides of the same coin.

Thomas De Maiziere

#29. 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

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

Frank Bidart

#31. Making is the mirror in which we see ourselves.

Frank Bidart

#32. The building art is man's spatial dialogue with his environment and demonstrates how he asserts himself therein and how he masters it.

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

#33. (Poem on anorexic): The only way to escape the history of styles is not to have a body.

Frank Bidart

#34. Then the voice in my head said
WHETHER YOU LOVE WHAT YOU LOVE
OR LIVE IN DIVIDED CEASELESS
REVOLT AGAINST IT
WHAT YOU LOVE IS YOUR FATE

Frank Bidart

#35. Sweet fiction, in which bravado and despair beckon from a cold panache, in which the protected essential self suffers flashes of its existence to be immortalized by a writing self that is incapable of performing its actions without mixing our essence with what is false.

Frank Bidart

#36. What takes place in me stays there.

Frank Bidart