Prose is prose because of what it includes; poetry is poetry because of what it leaves out. Marvin Bell More Quotes by Marvin Bell More Quotes From Marvin Bell Learn the rules, break the rules, make up new rules, break the new rules. Marvin Bell break 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 becoming growth jobs 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 get a chance to make something where there was nothing. Marvin Bell way art school Try to write poems at least one person in the room will hate. Marvin Bell hate writing trying 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 discovery firsts Sometimes the best revision of a poem is a new poem. Marvin Bell revision sometimes 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 brain writing Poetry is the least imposition on silence in a world of chatter. Marvin Bell silence poetry-is world The war to preserve the privilege of mythmaking Marvin Bell privilege motivational war I speak to you in one tongue/ but every moment that ever mattered to me/ occurred in another language. Marvin Bell tongue language speak A nation's art is the expression of its soul. Marvin Bell soul expression art
