Frank Bidart (born May 27, 1939 in Bakersfield, California) is an American academic and poet, and a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
Making is the mirror in which we see ourselves.
Insanity is the insistence on meaning.
Earth you know is round but seems flat. You can't trust your senses.
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.
We fill pre-existing forms and when we fill them we change them and are changed.
Once you reach what is inside it is outside.
To make a film you have to dream a film. . . that's true of poetry as well.
We live in a hell of opinions.
Play, and escaping the ideology one grew up in, is freedom.
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