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> [I'm partial to coffee shops, brain work, and poems on the page. I write after midnight. Sometimes, twisty syntax happens, and I surrender.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marvin-bell/i-m-partial-to-coffee-shops-brain-work-and-poems-on-the-page-i-write/)

[Marvin Bell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marvin-bell/)

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## More by Marvin Bell

> [Poetry is the least imposition on silence in a world of chatter.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marvin-bell/poetry-is-the-least-imposition-on-silence-in-a-world-of-chatter/)

[Marvin Bell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marvin-bell/the-writing-of-a-poem-is-for-me-in-the-first-place-an-almost-total/)

[Marvin Bell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marvin-bell/)

> [Prose is prose because of what it includes; poetry is poetry because of what it leaves out.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marvin-bell/prose-is-prose-because-of-what-it-includes-poetry-is-poetry-because/)

[Marvin Bell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marvin-bell/i-m-partial-to-coffee-shops-brain-work-and-poems-on-the-page-i-write/)

[Marvin Bell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marvin-bell/)

> [“The "I" in the poem is not you but someone who knows a lot about you.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marvin-bell/the-i-in-the-poem-is-not-you-but-someone-who-knows-a-lot-about-you/)

[Marvin Bell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marvin-bell/)

> [Sometimes the best revision of a poem is a new poem.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marvin-bell/sometimes-the-best-revision-of-a-poem-is-a-new-poem/)

[Marvin Bell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marvin-bell/)

> [I speak to you in one tongue/ but every moment that ever mattered to me/ occurred in another language.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marvin-bell/i-speak-to-you-in-one-tongue-but-every-moment-that-ever-mattered-to/)

[Marvin Bell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marvin-bell/much-of-our-lives-involves-the-word-no-in-school-we-are-mostly-told/)

[Marvin Bell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marvin-bell/)

> [Learn the rules, break the rules, make up new rules, break the new rules.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marvin-bell/learn-the-rules-break-the-rules-make-up-new-rules-break-the-new-rules/)

[Marvin Bell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marvin-bell/)

> [“You are not beautiful, exactly. You are beautiful, inexactly. You let a weed grow by the mulberry and a mulberry grow by the house.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marvin-bell/you-are-not-beautiful-exactly-you-are-beautiful-inexactly-you-let-a/)

[Marvin Bell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marvin-bell/)

> [Try to write poems at least one person in the room will hate.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marvin-bell/try-to-write-poems-at-least-one-person-in-the-room-will-hate/)

[Marvin Bell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marvin-bell/)

> [A nation's art is the expression of its soul.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marvin-bell/a-nation-s-art-is-the-expression-of-its-soul/)

[Marvin Bell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marvin-bell/)

> [The war to preserve the privilege of mythmaking](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marvin-bell/the-war-to-preserve-the-privilege-of-mythmaking/)

[Marvin Bell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marvin-bell/our-job-is-to-become-more-and-more-of-what-we-are-the-growth-of-a/)

[Marvin Bell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marvin-bell/)

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