Mary Szybist Inspirational Quotes (5)

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

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?

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

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

I do not believe in the beauty of falling.