Frank Bidart famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Book #Giving #Meals
We fill pre-existing forms and when we fill them we change them and are changed.
-- Frank Bidart

#Form #Changed
We live in a hell of opinions.
-- Frank Bidart

#Opinion #Hell
Making is the mirror in which we see ourselves.
-- Frank Bidart

#Mirrors
Once you reach what is / inside it is outside.
-- Frank Bidart
To make a film you have to dream a film... that's true of poetry as well.
-- Frank Bidart

#Dream #Film #Wells
Earth you know is round but seems flat. // You can't trust / your senses.
-- Frank Bidart

#Earth #Flats
Insanity is the insistence on meaning.
-- Frank Bidart

#Insanity #Insistence
Play, and escaping the ideology one grew up in, is freedom.
-- Frank Bidart

#Escaping #Play #Grew Up

The selection of a book-plate is such a serious matter.
In very clear and available language, this book details how to recognize the inner critic and how to deal effectively with it. Byron Brown's presentation is useful for any individual who wishes to be free from the inner suffering and coercion of this ancient foe of our humanity, but it is specifically directed to those interested and engaged in the inner journey toward realization and enlightenment.
It comes back to the old question: How can the Bible be so wise in some places and so barbaric in others? And why should we put any faith in a book that includes such brutality?
God never can use any man very much till he has grace enough to forget himself entirely while doing God's work; for He will not give His glory to another nor share with the most valued instrument the praise that belongs to Jesus Christ alone.
Begin to rejoice in the Lord, and your bones will flourish like an herb, and your cheeks will glow with the bloom of health and freshness. Worry, fear, distrust, care-all are poisonous! Joy is balm and healing, and if you will but rejoice, God will give power.
The science of anti-Semitism finally comes to explain this phenomenon, enlightening further the consciousness of people, fully satisfying their instinct and its violent eruptions thus legitimized by revealing their cause - the parasitism of the Jews. Thus it gives us the formula of the scientific solution for the problem of Judaism, which in order to realize we have only to apply.
I love it when the Bible gives Emily Post-like tips that are both wise and easy to follow.
Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals
Money means better meals at better places.
Wine makes every meal an occasion, every table more elegant, every day more civilized.

Frank Bidart famous quotes

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