Marvin Bell Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

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

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

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

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

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

#Motivational Quotes #War Quotes #Privilege Quotes
“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 Quotes #School Quotes #Way Quotes
“A nation's art is the expression of its soul.”
-- Marvin Bell

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

#Tongue Quotes #Language Quotes #Speak Quotes
“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 Quotes #Growth Quotes #Becoming Quotes
“Sometimes the best revision of a poem is a new poem.”
-- Marvin Bell

#Revision Quotes #Sometimes Quotes
“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 Quotes #Discovery Quotes #Firsts Quotes

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