Quotes by : Frank Bidart

Though the body is itsgenesis, a poem is the vision of a p

I'm not a fool, I knew from the beginningwhat couldn't happen. What couldn't

The stratagems by which briefly youameliorated, even seeminglyuntwisted what still twists within you....

Understand that when the beast within yousucceeds again in paralyzing into unendingincompletion whatever....

Horrible the fate of the advice-giver in our culture: to repeat oneself in a thousand contexts until....

Though the body is itsgenesis, a poem is the vision of a processCarved in space, vision your poor eye's....

drugged to sleep by repetition of the diurnalround, the monotonous sorrow of the finite,within    ....

After sex & metaphysics,—… what?What you have made.