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Tracy K. Smith quotes: I had written here and there about my mother in my poems. There are poems for her in my first and second books.

I had written here and there about my mother in my poems. There are poems for her in my first and second books.

Tracy K. Smith quotes: Often it is a moment rather than an event that makes a poem.

Often it is a moment rather than an event that makes a poem.

Tracy K. Smith quotes: 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.

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.

Tracy K. Smith quotes: everything/ that ever was still is, somewhere

everything/ that ever was still is, somewhere

Tracy K. Smith quotes: Brooklyn is kind of my writer's retreat.

Brooklyn is kind of my writer's retreat.

Tracy K. Smith quotes: 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.

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.

Tracy K. Smith quotes: I feel like it's a gift for any writer to be recognized like this.

I feel like it's a gift for any writer to be recognized like this.

Tracy K. Smith quotes: For me, a poem is an opportunity to kind of interrogate myself a little bit.

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

Tracy K. Smith quotes: Keetje Kuipers' poems are daring, formally beautiful and driven by rich imagery and startling ideas.

Keetje Kuipers' poems are daring, formally beautiful and driven by rich imagery and startling ideas.

Tracy K. Smith quotes: I don't know how anyone can see the Hubble 'Deep Field' image and not feel like something else is going about its business out there.

I don't know how anyone can see the Hubble 'Deep Field' image and not feel like something else is going about its business out there.

Tracy K. Smith quotes: Look, I want to say,The worst thing you can imagine has alreadyZipped up its coat and is heading backUp the road to wherever it came from.

Look, I want to say,
The worst thing you can imagine has already
Zipped up its coat and is heading back
Up the road to wherever it came from.

Tracy K. Smith quotes: I've been beating my head all day long on the same six lines,

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