Mary Szybist quotes
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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?”
-- Mary SzybistSource : Mary Szybist (2013). “Incarnadine: Poems”, p.13, Macmillan
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“Without you my air tastes like nothing. For you I hold my breath.”
-- Mary SzybistSource : Mary Szybist (2013). “Incarnadine: Poems”, p.15, Graywolf Press
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“I do not believe in the beauty of falling.”
-- Mary SzybistSource : Mary Szybist (2013). “Incarnadine: Poems”, p.39, Macmillan
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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 SzybistSource : Mary Szybist (2013). “Incarnadine: Poems”, p.23, Macmillan
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“You can’t have two worlds in your hands and choose emptiness.”
-- Mary SzybistSource : Mary Szybist (2013). “Incarnadine: Poems”, p.29, Macmillan
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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.”
-- Mary SzybistSource : "Members Of 'Lonely Craft' Gather For National Book Awards". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. November 21, 2013.
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“Dreams dress us carefully in the colors of power and faith.”
Source : Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.68, Lulu.com
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Source : Ad Reinhardt, Barbara Rose (1991). “Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt”, p.86, Univ of California Press
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Source : Alfred Austin (1885). “At the Gate of the Convent: And Other Poems”
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“Scents as well as clothes and hairstyles can go a long way in revealing a part of yourself”
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“Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.”
Source : Aimee Bender (2011). “The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake”, p.51, Random House
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“If a scene is longer than three pages, it better be for a good reason.”
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