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

— Marvin Bell

"Thirty-two Statements About Writing Poetry" http://www.coppercanyonpress.org/400_opportunities/430_gettingpub/bell.cfm, statement # 5, The Writer's Chronicle, Commemorative Issue (Copper Canyon Press, 2002).

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