Tracy K. Smith Quotes

A poem gives me a chance to have an encounter with a feeling, with an experience, with a wish, with an idea.

Tracy K. Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 16, 1972

Topics

ExperienceMeChanceWishFeeling

I will say you could always look at 'Looney Tunes' and learn about writing. I think you can learn a lot about the beats of comedy. I think you can find out about awkward pauses, because I think they did those well.

Jim Rash

WritingThinkLearnComedyYouLook

The electronic media introduced this idea to the larger audience very, very quickly. We spent years and years and years meeting with activists all over Europe to lay the groundwork for a political response, as we did here.

Jeremy Rifkin

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War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

John F. Kennedy

TodayDayWarReputationWarrior

As most people know, I am a vampire, so I have no reflection. Every day, I paste a picture of someone else on the mirror.

Meat Loaf

MirrorReflectionDayI AmPeople

Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Knowledge once gained casts a light beyond its own immediate boundaries.

John Tyndall

KnowledgeLightBeyondBoundaries

The kitchen is the heart of the house.

Alvaro Enrigue

HeartKitchenHouse

Crazy Horse saw history as integrated in the present, incorporated into daily life.

Stephen Ambrose

LifeDailyHistoryDaily LifeCrazy

I do not sing nor play, but I adore music, particularly Chopin. I like him because I cannot understand him.

Mary MacLane

MusicPlayUnderstandHimSingLike

You have to always remember who your guest is, and that's who we cater to.

Michael Mina

RememberYouAlwaysGuestWhoYour

It's funny, because '1600 Penn' was the first time I really started to read the reviews, because I am an executive producer and I wanted to see what people were enjoying and not enjoying as a means to an end, right?

Josh Gad

FunnyTimeI AmPeopleEndSee

If you take myth and folklore, and these things that speak in symbols, they can be interpreted in so many ways that although the actual image is clear enough, the interpretation is infinitely blurred, a sort of enormous rainbow of every possible colour you could imagine.

Diana Wynne Jones

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