Try to write poems at least one person in the room will hate.
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.
- 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
I'm partial to coffee shops, brain work, and poems on the page. I write after midnight. Sometimes, twisty syntax happens, and I surrender.
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…
Try to write poems at least one person in the room will hate. - Marvin Bell
Sometimes the best revision of a poem is a new poem. - Marvin Bell
Sometimes the best revision of a poem is a new poem.
The war to preserve the privilege of mythmaking - Marvin Bell
The war to preserve the privilege of mythmaking
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.
Learn the rules, break the rules, make up new rules, break the new rules. - Marvin Bell
Learn the rules, break the rules, make up new rules, break the new rules.
A nation's art is the expression of its soul. - Marvin Bell
A nation's art is the expression of its soul.
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