Top 12 Quotes by Marvin Bell

Learn the rules, break the rules, make up new rules, break the new rules.

Learn the rules, break the rules, make up new rules, break the new rules.

Marvin Bell

Break

"Thirty-two Statements About Writing Poetry (statement #5)". "The Writer's Chronicle", Commemorative Issue, 2002.

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

Marvin Bell

Poetry Is, Prose

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

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, Growth, Becoming

Marvin Bell (1983). “Old snow just melting: essays and interviews”, Univ of Michigan Pr

Poetry is the least imposition on silence in a world of chatter.

Marvin Bell

Silence, World, Poetry Is

Try to write poems at least one person in the room will hate.

Marvin Bell

Hate, Writing, Trying

A nation's art is the expression of its soul.

Marvin Bell

Art, Expression, Soul

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

Art, School, Way