Tracy K. Smith Quotes

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• Poems infatuated with their own smarts and detached from any emotional grounding can leave the reader feeling lonely, empty and ashamed for having expected more.…
• Brooklyn is kind of my writer's retreat.
• For me, a poem is an opportunity to kind of interrogate myself a little bit.
• So much of my poetry begins with something that I can describe in visual terms, so thinking about distance, thinking about how life begins and…
• I grew up in northern California in a town called Fairfield, which is kind of exactly between San Francisco and Sacramento, a small suburb. And…
• Everything that disappears/Disappears as if returning somewhere
• We are here for what amounts to a few/hours,/a day at most./We feel around making sense of the terrain,/our own new limbs,/Bumping up against a…
• I've been beating my head all day long on the same six lines,
• Keetje Kuipers' poems are daring, formally beautiful and driven by rich imagery and startling ideas.

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