Poetry is the least imposition on silence in a world of chatter. — Marvin Bell Poetry 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… — Marvin Bell Abandon Copy Share Image
Prose is prose because of what it includes; poetry is poetry because of what it leaves out. — Marvin Bell Inspirational 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… — Marvin Bell Brain Copy Share Image
“The "I" in the poem is not you but someone who knows a lot about you.” — Marvin Bell Poetry Copy Share Image
I speak to you in one tongue/ but every moment that ever mattered to me/ occurred in another language. — Marvin Bell Every moment 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… — Marvin Bell Art Copy Share Image
Learn the rules, break the rules, make up new rules, break the new rules. — Marvin Bell Break 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… — Marvin Bell Love Copy Share Image
Our job is to become more and more of what we are. The growth of a poet seems to be related to… — Marvin Bell Becoming Copy Share Image
