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Frank Bidart

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Frank Bidart (born May 27, 1939 in Bakersfield, California ) is an American academic and poet.

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Top 5 Poems

1	California Plush
2	Adolescence
3	Adolescence
4	Herbert White
5	To The Dead

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California Plush

For The Twentieth Century

If I Could Mourn Like A Mourning Dove

Overheard Through The Walls Of The Invisible City

Self-Portrait 1969

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Quote Left The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.
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Quote Left The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious.
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Quote Left The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.
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Quote Left Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.
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Quote Left Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
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