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Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Mary Szybist

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American poet Mary Szybist.

Last updated on November 25, 2024.

Mary Szybist

Mary Szybist is an American poet. She won the National Book Award for Poetry for her collection Incarnadine.

American - Poet | Born: September 20, 1970

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

Mary Szybist

Mary Szybist

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

Mary Szybist

Without you my air tastes like nothing. For you I hold my breath. — © Mary Szybist

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

Mary Szybist

Mary Szybist

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

Mary Szybist

Mary Szybist

I do not believe in the beauty of falling.

Mary Szybist

Mary Szybist

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

Mary Szybist

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