FBFrank Bidart

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Frank Bidart

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Quotations and sayings

01Undated

Though the body is itsgenesis, a poem is the vision of a processCarved in space, vision your poor eye's singlearmor against winter spring summer fall

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02Undated

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

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03Undated

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.

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04Undated

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

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05Undated

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.

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06Undated

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

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07Undated

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

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08Undated

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.

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