Marvin Bell Quotes
- Learn the rules, break the rules, make up new rules, break the new rules.
- Try to write poems at least one person in the room will hate.
- Poetry is the least imposition on silence in a world of chatter.
- Prose is prose because of what it includes; poetry is poetry because of what it leaves out.
- The war to preserve the privilege of mythmaking
- 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…
- A nation's art is the expression of its soul.
- I speak to you in one tongue/ but every moment that ever mattered to me/ occurred in another language.