"The writing of a poem is, for me, in the first place, an almost total act of abandon leading to discovery leading to recognition."

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Source : "What You See Is What You Get: Marvin Bell in Conversation". Interview with Haines Eason, www.poets.org. August 20, 2009.

Marvin Bell

#Writing Quotes #Discovery Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“The world is anxious to admire that apex and culmination of modern mathematics: a theorem so perfectly general that no particular application of it is feasible.”
“Better untaught than ill-taught.”
“If sympathy is all that human beings need, then the Cross of Christ is an absurdity and there is absolutely no need for it. What the world needs is not "a little bit of love," but major surgery. If you think you are helping lost people with your sympathy and understanding, you are a traitor to Jesus Christ. You must have a right-standing relationship with Him yourself, and pour your life out in helping others in His wayâ€” not in a human way that ignores God.”
“We can have eternal life if we want it, but only if there is nothing else we want more.”

Source : "The Atonement: All for All". Bruce C. Hafen’s speech at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. April, 2004.
“I grew up half the time in a small town called Mart, Texas, and half the time in L.A., because I was acting. My high school was crazy about football.”

Source : "Friday Night Lights: Jesse Plemons Has Home-Field Advantage". Interview with Marnie Hanel, www.vanityfair.com. April 2009.
“He's a fool that marries; but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool.”
“I think the Tata Group's greatest contribution to the growth of the Indian economy and Indian industry probably happened in the pre-independence era. The Group's investments in industries such as steel, textiles, power and hotels were certainly driven by an entrepreneurial spirit, but they were driven even more, I think, by a desire to make India self-sufficient and independent of its colonial masters then.”
“The Order of the Arrow is a thing of the outdoors rather than the indoors. It was born in an island wilderness. It needs the sun and rain, the woods and the plains, the waters and the starlit sky.”

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