"Prose is prose because of what it includes; poetry is poetry because of what it leaves out."

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Source : Marvin Bell (1994). “A Marvin Bell reader: selected poetry and prose”, University Press of New England

Marvin Bell

#Poetry Is Quotes #Prose Quotes

“It's nothing to do with us at all, our success is due to the taste of the public.”

Source : Countdown interview, April 1976.
“I have no special talent, you know. I never took a writing course before I began to write.”
“For the uniqueness of man lies in his capacity for self-transcendence.”
“Women have to harness their power - it's absolutely true. It's just learning not to take the first no. And if you can't go straight ahead, you go around the corner.”

Source : FLATT Interview, flattmag.com.
“The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes”
“As the child approaches a new text he is entitled to an introduction so that when he reads, the gist of the... story can provide some guide for a fluent reading.”
“Unless you are willing to try, fail miserable, and try again, success won't happen.”
“Sordid selfishness doth contract and narrow our benevolence, and cause us, like serpents, to infold ourselves within ourselves, and to turn out our stings to the entire world besides.”

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