Top 12 Quotes & Sayings by Marvin Bell

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American poet Marvin Bell.

Last updated on September 18, 2024.

Marvin Hartley Bell was an American poet and teacher who was the first Poet Laureate of the state of Iowa.

American - Poet | Born: August 3, 1937

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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

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

Marvin Bell

The war to preserve the privilege of mythmaking

Marvin Bell

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

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 art is the big yes. In art, you get a chance to make something where there was nothing.

Marvin Bell

I speak to you in one tongue/ but every moment that ever mattered to me/ occurred in another language.

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.

Marvin Bell

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

Marvin Bell

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

Marvin Bell

Sometimes the best revision of a poem is a new poem.

Marvin Bell

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