Mary Szybist Quotes

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

  Mary Szybist

  Air, Taste, Without You

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

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

  Mary Szybist

  Hands, Two, World

  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 Szybist

  Miracle, Doe, Courses

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

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• I do not believe in the beauty of falling.

  Mary Szybist

  Believe, Fall

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

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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 Szybist

  Color, Scent, Pages

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

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

  Mary Szybist

  Damp, Edges

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

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