Phrase by 'Mary Szybist'

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I have always been attracted to apostrophe, perhaps because of its resemblance to prayer. A voice reaches out to something beyond itself that cannot answer it. I find that moving in part because it enacts what is true of all address and communication on some level - it cannot fully be heard, understood, or answered.

Author: Mary Szybist - American Poet
  True , Prayer , Voice , Communication


When I was young, I reached a point where I found myself unable to pray. I was devastated by it. I missed being able to say words in my head that I believed could be heard by a being, a consciousness outside me. That is when I turned to poetry.

Author: Mary Szybist - American Poet
  Me , Myself , Words , Poetry


I turn to poems to find spaces that might enlarge, rather than distill, experience.

Author: Mary Szybist - American Poet
  Find , Experience , Than , Turn


I think that a good deal of poetry and art gives us some sense of access to another's voice, perception, texture of thought, imagination. Sometimes it gives us better access to the strangeness in ourselves.

Author: Mary Szybist - American Poet
  Good , Poetry , Art , Imagination


Form is endlessly interesting to me, and I love poetry as a formal enterprise.

Author: Mary Szybist - American Poet
  Love , Me , Poetry , Interesting


I was thinking recently about the popularity of TV shows about people shopping for houses. I wonder if part of their appeal is the chance to vicariously imagine our lives playing out in a variety of spaces. We have a sense that the shape and style of our dwellings affects the shapes of the lives that unfold within them.

Author: Mary Szybist - American Poet
  People , Thinking , Style , Shopping


Writing poems is a chance to construct spaces that I want to imaginatively inhabit.

Author: Mary Szybist - American Poet
  Want , Writing , Chance , Spaces


Sometimes I have a hard time distinguishing between faith and hope.

Author: Mary Szybist - American Poet
  Sometimes , Time , Faith , Hope


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