Learn the rules, break the rules, make up new rules, break the new rules.
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
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
The war to preserve the privilege of mythmaking - Marvin Bell
The war to preserve the privilege of mythmaking
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 mo… - Marvin Bell
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 mo…
A nation's art is the expression of its soul. - Marvin Bell
A nation's art is the expression of its soul.
Learn the rules, break the rules, make up new rules, break the new rules. - Marvin Bell
Much of our lives involves the word “no.” In school we are mostly told, “Don't do it this way. Do it that way.” But art is the big yes. In art, you g… - Marvin Bell
Much of our lives involves the word “no.” In school we are mostly told, “Don't do it this way. Do it that way.” But art is the big yes. In art, you g…
Sometimes the best revision of a poem is a new poem. - Marvin Bell
Sometimes the best revision of a poem is a new poem.
Prose is prose because of what it includes; poetry is poetry because of what it leaves out. - Marvin Bell
Prose is prose because of what it includes; poetry is poetry because of what it leaves out.
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
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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