Mary Szybist Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“If I could/bind myself to this moment, to the slow//snare of its scent/what would it matter if I became//just the flutter of page/in a text someone turns//to examine me/in the wrong color?”
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“Without you my air tastes like nothing. For you I hold my breath.”
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“I do not believe in the beauty of falling.”
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“You can’t have two worlds in your hands and choose emptiness.”
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“There’s plenty that poetry cannot do, but the miracle, of course, is how much it can do, how much it does do.”
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“Days go by when I do nothing but underline the damp edge of myself.”
-- Mary Szybist
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