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> [I feel like the older I get, the truer it feels that I'm only going have an investment in a poem if it allows or forces me to bring something that's supremely me onto the page. I used to think…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tracy-k-smith/i-feel-like-the-older-i-get-the-truer-it-feels-that-i-m-only-going/)

[Tracy K. Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tracy-k-smith/)

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## More by Tracy K. Smith

> [I've been beating my head all day long on the same six lines,](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tracy-k-smith/i-ve-been-beating-my-head-all-day-long-on-the-same-six-lines/)

[Tracy K. Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tracy-k-smith/)

> [For years following the death of my mother, I wanted to write about her. I started writing what I thought of as personal essays…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tracy-k-smith/for-years-following-the-death-of-my-mother-i-wanted-to-write-about/)

[Tracy K. Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tracy-k-smith/)

> [“So much we once coveted. So much That would have saved us, but lived, Instead, its own quick span, returning To uselessness with the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tracy-k-smith/so-much-we-once-coveted-so-much-that-would-have-saved-us-but-lived/)

[Tracy K. Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tracy-k-smith/)

> [“sometimes, what i see is a library in a rural community. all the tall shelves in the big open room. and the pencils in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tracy-k-smith/sometimes-what-i-see-is-a-library-in-a-rural-community-all-the-tall/)

[Tracy K. Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tracy-k-smith/)

> [I have three kids, so children's literature is a big part of my life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tracy-k-smith/i-have-three-kids-so-children-s-literature-is-a-big-part-of-my-life/)

[Tracy K. Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tracy-k-smith/)

> [I feel like the older I get, the truer it feels that I'm only going have an investment in a poem if it allows…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tracy-k-smith/i-feel-like-the-older-i-get-the-truer-it-feels-that-i-m-only-going/)

[Tracy K. Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tracy-k-smith/)

> [One of poetry's great effects, through its emphasis upon feeling, association, music, and image - things we recognize and respond to even before we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tracy-k-smith/one-of-poetry-s-great-effects-through-its-emphasis-upon-feeling/)

[Tracy K. Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tracy-k-smith/)

> [“we like to think of it as parallel to what we know only bigger. one man against the authorities. or one man against a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tracy-k-smith/we-like-to-think-of-it-as-parallel-to-what-we-know-only-bigger-one/)

[Tracy K. Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tracy-k-smith/)

> [A question is a pursuit, an invitation to envision and explore a series of possibilities, to struggle and empathize and doubt and believe. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tracy-k-smith/a-question-is-a-pursuit-an-invitation-to-envision-and-explore-a/)

[Tracy K. Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tracy-k-smith/)

> [I know my curiosity as a writer and as a person makes me really interested in moving to parts of the country that I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tracy-k-smith/i-know-my-curiosity-as-a-writer-and-as-a-person-makes-me-really/)

[Tracy K. Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tracy-k-smith/)

> [For me, a poem is an opportunity to kind of interrogate myself a little bit.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tracy-k-smith/for-me-a-poem-is-an-opportunity-to-kind-of-interrogate-myself-a/)

[Tracy K. Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tracy-k-smith/)

> [Everything that disappears/Disappears as if returning somewhere](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tracy-k-smith/everything-that-disappears-disappears-as-if-returning-somewhere/)

[Tracy K. Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tracy-k-smith/)

> [I feel most alive, most electric with faith, breath, and courage, when I think of God as a current that runs through all that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tracy-k-smith/i-feel-most-alive-most-electric-with-faith-breath-and-courage-when-i/)

[Tracy K. Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tracy-k-smith/)

> [I want to just go to places where writers don't usually go, where people like me don't usually show up, and say, 'Here are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tracy-k-smith/i-want-to-just-go-to-places-where-writers-don-t-usually-go-where/)

[Tracy K. Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tracy-k-smith/)

> [When my father died, those years when he was working on the Hubble came back to me, and it seemed fitting to imagine him…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tracy-k-smith/when-my-father-died-those-years-when-he-was-working-on-the-hubble/)

[Tracy K. Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tracy-k-smith/)

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