97 Quotes by Tracy K. Smith
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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 I'm the youngest of five children.
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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 what might be watching us.
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I feel like it's a gift for any writer to be recognized like this.
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Keetje Kuipers' poems are daring, formally beautiful and driven by rich imagery and startling ideas.
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I've been beating my head all day long on the same six lines,
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When I was young, my father was lord Of a small kingdom: a wife, a garden, Kids for whom his word was Word. It took years for my view to harden, To shrink him to human size.
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History, with its hard spine & dog-eared Corners, will be replaced with nuance, Just like the dinosaurs gave way To mounds and mounds of ice.
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If I call it pain, and try to touch it With my hands, my own life, It lies still and the music thins, A pulse felt for through garments.
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Brooklyn is kind of my writer's retreat.
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