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It Shouldn't Have Been Beautiful (Poets, Penguin) QUOTES

It Shouldn't Have Been Beautiful (Poets, Penguin) QUOTES

1 " Red Bird in Snow

You can choose
to stop short -
or have it
not matter
not weigh
the brightness,
not hold
very still
and be
known
to yourself
again.
A thing
fills
with exactly
the radiance
you accord it. "

― Lia Purpura , It Shouldn't Have Been Beautiful (Poets, Penguin)

2 " Proof

That goldfinches favor
yellow blooms
is proof
that sustenance
comes in a form
resembling, pleasing,
not to be fought for,
but found
like bearings
by a light both
given and sought,
that singular glow. "

― Lia Purpura , It Shouldn't Have Been Beautiful (Poets, Penguin)

3 " They’re sliding around in disguise like gods. It’s two in the afternoon. It’s four. You can’t take these hours apart and repair them. Nothing’s wrong with them. "

― Lia Purpura , It Shouldn't Have Been Beautiful (Poets, Penguin)

4 " Beauty persists. Which, as truths go, complicates all we need to know. "

― Lia Purpura , It Shouldn't Have Been Beautiful (Poets, Penguin)

5 " Each thing’s its own partner, each always both, depending on where you stand, "

― Lia Purpura , It Shouldn't Have Been Beautiful (Poets, Penguin)

6 " A certain kind comes very fast, but unexpectedly, like a feeling about work on behalf of beauty no one devours: those carrot birds, those radish flowers. "

― Lia Purpura , It Shouldn't Have Been Beautiful (Poets, Penguin)

7 " To sew the blue-burnt edges of a gunshot wound together should require only concentration, training, deftness, ease with systems awry and how to stabilize, but with good tools, sharp blades, bright lights, I’m guessing a material’s qualities become more. Professionals are adept at covering it up, but I’m pretty sure pleasure insists. "

― Lia Purpura , It Shouldn't Have Been Beautiful (Poets, Penguin)