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Mary Szybist Quotes

Without you my air tastes like nothing. For you I hold my breath.

Without you my air tastes like nothing. For you I hold my breath.

Air, Taste, Without You

Mary Szybist (2013). “Incarnadine: Poems”, p.15, Graywolf Press

You can’t have two worlds in your hands and choose emptiness.

Hands, Two, World

Mary Szybist (2013). “Incarnadine: Poems”, p.29, Macmillan

There’s plenty that poetry cannot do. But the miracle, of course, is how much it can do, how much it does do.

Miracle, Doe, Courses

"Members Of 'Lonely Craft' Gather For National Book Awards". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. November 21, 2013.

I do not believe in the beauty of falling.

Believe, Fall

Mary Szybist (2013). “Incarnadine: Poems”, p.39, Macmillan

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?

Color, Scent, Pages

Mary Szybist (2013). “Incarnadine: Poems”, p.13, Macmillan

Days go by when I do nothing but underline the damp edge of myself.

Damp, Edges

Mary Szybist (2013). “Incarnadine: Poems”, p.23, Macmillan

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