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… — Marvin Bell Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Prose is prose because of what it includes; poetry is poetry because of what it leaves out. — Marvin Bell Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“The "I" in the poem is not you but someone who knows a lot about you.” — Marvin Bell Copy Share Image
I speak to you in one tongue/ but every moment that ever mattered to me/ occurred in another language. — Marvin Bell Copy Share Image
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… — Marvin Bell Copy Share Image
Learn the rules, break the rules, make up new rules, break the new rules. — Marvin Bell Copy Share Image
“You are not beautiful, exactly. You are beautiful, inexactly. You let a weed grow by the mulberry and a mulberry grow by the house.… — Marvin Bell Copy Share Image
