Frank Bidart Professions : Academic Born : May 27, 1939 Browse All Authors Top 9 quotes by Frank Bidart 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 meals giving book We fill pre-existing forms and when we fill them we change them and are changed. Frank Bidart changed form Insanity is the insistence on meaning. Frank Bidart insistence insanity We live in a hell of opinions. Frank Bidart hell opinion Once you reach what is / inside it is outside. Frank Bidart Earth you know is round but seems flat. // You can't trust / your senses. Frank Bidart flats senses earth Play, and escaping the ideology one grew up in, is freedom. Frank Bidart escaping grew-up play Making is the mirror in which we see ourselves. Frank Bidart mirrors To make a film you have to dream a film... that's true of poetry as well. Frank Bidart wells film dream Similar Authors Brian Fitzgerald academic Anthony Aveni academic Amitai Etzioni academic Ali Mazrui academic Dennis Altman academic Denis Donoghue academic All Authors