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Much of our lives involves the word 'no'. In school we are mostly told, 'Don't do it this way. Do it that way.'. Art is the big yes. In art, you get a chance to make something where there was nothing.
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Learn the rules, break the rules, make up new rules, break the new rules.
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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.
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I speak to you in one tongue/ but every moment that ever mattered to me/ occurred in another language.
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Every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the'.
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Marvin Bell
Born:
August 3, 1937
Died:
December 14, 2020
(aged 83)
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Marvin Bell was an American poet and teacher who was the first Poet Laureate of the state of Iowa.
Known for:
The book of the dead man (1994)
Nightworks (2000)
Stars which see, stars which do not see (1977)
Mars Being Red (2007)
Vertigo: The Living Dead Man Poems (2011)
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