22 Quotes by Frank Bidart

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

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.

Cum acolo unde face ce face, el nu este: Cum atunci când face nu este:De-aici baza înstrăinării noastre de sine.- Marx, în 1844

Werther s-a sinucis, apoi tineri din toată Europa l-au urmat și s-au sinucis și ei, mai puțin autorul lui, Goethe, viclean maestru al practicii, a trăit.

…Then, I said to myself:'HISTORY IS HUMAN NATURE—;TO SAY I AM GUILTYIS TO ACCEPT IMPLICATIONIN THE HUMAN RACE. . .'—Now, for months and months,I have foundANOTHER MAN in me—;HE is NOT me—; Iam afraid of him …

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.

La șaptezeci și doi de ani, viitorul e ceea ce jelesc.Din facultate n-am uitat-o niciodată pe Mașaîn Pescărușul spunând Sunt în doliu după viața mea.

Couples stay together when each of the two remains a necessity for the other. which you cannot know, until they cease to be.

I'm not a fool, I knew from the beginningwhat couldn't happen. What couldn't happendidn't. The enterprise is abandoned.But half our life is dreams, delirium, everything that underliesthat feedsthat keeps alive the illusion of sanity, semi-sanity, we allowothers to see. The half of me that feeds the restis in mourning. Mourns. Each time we mustmourn, we fear this is the final mourning, this timemourning never will lift.