Marvin Bell famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Learn the rules, break the rules, make up new rules, break the new rules.
-- Marvin Bell

#Break
I'm partial to coffee shops, brain work, and poems on the page. I write after midnight. Sometimes, twisty syntax happens, and I surrender.
-- Marvin Bell

#Coffee #Writing #Brain
Try to write poems at least one person in the room will hate.
-- Marvin Bell

#Hate #Writing #Trying
Poetry is the least imposition on silence in a world of chatter.
-- Marvin Bell

#Silence #World #Poetry Is
Prose is prose because of what it includes; poetry is poetry because of what it leaves out.
-- Marvin Bell

#Poetry Is #Prose
The war to preserve the privilege of mythmaking
-- Marvin Bell

#Motivational #War #Privilege
Much of our lives involves the word â€œno.â€ In school we are mostly told, â€œDon't do it this way. Do it that way.â€ But art is the big yes. In art, you get a chance to make something where there was nothing.
-- Marvin Bell

#Art #School #Way
A nation's art is the expression of its soul.
-- Marvin Bell

#Art #Expression #Soul
I speak to you in one tongue/ but every moment that ever mattered to me/ occurred in another language.
-- Marvin Bell

#Tongue #Language #Speak
Our job is to become more and more of what we are. The growth of a poet seems to be related to his or her becoming less and less embarrassed about more and more.
-- Marvin Bell

#Jobs #Growth #Becoming
Sometimes the best revision of a poem is a new poem.
-- Marvin Bell

#Revision #Sometimes
The writing of a poem is, for me, in the first place, an almost total act of abandon leading to discovery leading to recognition.
-- Marvin Bell

#Writing #Discovery #Firsts

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