Alive Quote by Tracy K. Smith

I've been beating my head all day long on the same six lines,

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Tracy K. Smith

I have three kids, so children's literature is a big part of my life.

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Tracy K. Smith

For me, a poem is an opportunity to kind of interrogate myself a little bit.

— Tracy K. Smith

Everything that disappears/Disappears as if returning somewhere

— Tracy K. Smith