--- title: "3 Dennis Nurkse Quotes - Famous Poet" description: "American poet (born 1949)... | Dennis Nurkse is an American poet from Brooklyn. He is the author of twelve poetry collections. His work has been reviewe..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b022/author-dennis-nurkse-77221.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Dennis Nurkse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b022/author-dennis-nurkse-77221.jpg) # Dennis Nurkse (1949) Poet **3** quotes in **42** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Dennis Nurkse is a poet. ## Quick Facts About Dennis Nurkse Born January 1, 1949 Profession Poet ## About Dennis Nurkse American poet (born 1949)... \| Dennis Nurkse is an American poet from Brooklyn. He is the author of twelve poetry collections. His work has been reviewed in the New York Times, the New Yorker, the Guardian, the Times Literary Supplement (UK), translated into a dozen languages, and featured at the Jaipur International Literary Fes ## Quotes by Dennis Nurkse > [Mary Mackey joins other visionary poets of dpaysement . . . recovering a lost part of herself in the edgy lyricism of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dennis-nurkse/mary-mackey-joins-other-visionary-poets-of-dpaysement-recovering-a/) [Dennis Nurkse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dennis-nurkse/) [Edgy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/edgy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3fe/dennis-nurkse-77221_edgy_mary-mackey-joins-other-visionary-poets_1519548.jpg) > [Poetry teaches us how to live in a world in which none of us belongs.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dennis-nurkse/poetry-teaches-us-how-to-live-in-a-world-in-which-none-of-us-belongs/) [Dennis Nurkse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dennis-nurkse/) [Belongs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/belongs/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3f5/dennis-nurkse-77221_belongs_poetry-teaches-us-how-to-live-in-a-world_2011776.png) > [Howard Altmann has found a way to make language transform itself. If the elusive moment between I and Thou could speak, it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dennis-nurkse/howard-altmann-has-found-a-way-to-make-language-transform-itself-if/) [Dennis Nurkse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dennis-nurkse/) [Art](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/art/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9e7/dennis-nurkse-77221_art_howard-altmann-has-found-a-way-to-make-l_2285445.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dennis-nurkse/#itemlist", "name": "Dennis Nurkse Quotes", "numberOfItems": 3, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Mary Mackey joins other visionary poets of dpaysement . . . recovering a lost part of herself in the edgy lyricism of the tropics, haunted by fado, forr, and death. 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