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Quote by Marvin Bell

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

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Marvin Bell is an American poet born on August 3, 1937. His poetry is known for its concise language and profound emotion, winning the hearts of readers. more

“So much of what I love about poetry lies in the vast possibilities of voice, the spectacular range of idiosyncratic flavors that can be embedded in a particular human voice reporting from the field. One beautiful axis of voice is the one that runs between vulnerability and detachment, between 'It hurts to be alive' and 'I can see a million miles from here.' A good poetic voice can do both at once.”

“When I go back to the core of my childhood, my cousin Lucy seems always to be in the peripheral vision of my memories. She is off to one side, always off to one side, with a book, with a scheme or a project or an enterprise.”

Book Seems Sides Memories Vision Childhood Projects Core Enterprise Schemes Cousin Lucy My Cousin Peripheral Vision

Author:Martin Amis

“One way poetry connects is across time. . . . Some echo of a writer's physical experience comes into us when we read her poem.”

Way One Way Echoes

Author:Jane Hirshfield

“As this life is not a gate, but the horse plunging through it.”

Life Is Horse This Life Gates

Book:Come, Thief: Poems

Source: Come, Thief: Poems

“Poetry's task is to increase the available stock of reality, R P Blackmur said.”

Said Reality Tasks Increase Available

Author:Jane Hirshfield

“Zen is less the study of doctrine than a set of tools for discovering what can be known when the world is looked at with open eyes.”

World Eye Known Study Tools Doctrine Discovering Open Eyes

Book:Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World

Source: Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World

“A studio, like a poem, is an intimacy and a freedom you can look out from, into each part of your life and a little beyond.”

Looks Littles Studios Intimacy

Author:Jane Hirshfield

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