Tracy K. Smith Quotes

I work with a lot of young people who have poems that are changing their lives, that they're eager to talk about, but every now and then when I meet someone, maybe someone of my parents' generation, and I tell them that I write poetry, they'll begin to recite something that they memorized when they were in school that has never left them.

Tracy K. Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WorkSchoolPoetryParentsPeople

Many scientists will have to contribute to the solution of the great problem; they will have to follow up and measure all those phenomena in which the atomic structure is directly expressed.

Johannes Stark

GreatProblemSolutionMeasureWill

One thing I know for sure - this motherhood thing is not for sissies.

Jennifer Nettles

MotherhoodKnowSureOne ThingThing

I've been boxing since I was eight, and that's a long time to take punches day after day.

Amir Khan

TimeDayLongBoxingLong TimeTake

I've never really been able to tolerate zoos.

Sonya Hartnett

NeverBeenAbleTolerateReally

New country music comprises about five percent of what I hear per year. I enjoy it, but I don't really take note of who's singing it or writing it.

Rivers Cuomo

MusicWritingSingingEnjoyYear

Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

ResponsibilityGenerationWillNext

Dancing is my obsession. My life.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

LifeMy LifeDancingObsession

When Basquiat was hanging out with Madonna and Fab Five Freddy, and all those worlds were colliding, people have to realize hip-hop and the arts were like this 'cause we both were outcasts: we wasn't allowed inside the galleries or inside Yankee Stadium. We were writing in the street and making music.

Jay-Z

MusicPeopleWritingStreetHip-Hop

The film you know as 'Super Troopers' is a film that almost didn't happen. The script was originally commissioned and developed by Miramax, but when it failed to get a green light, Harvey Weinstein was kind enough to give it back to us so we could make it elsewhere.

Jay Chandrasekhar

LightGreenEnoughYouBackKnow

There's probably a lot of people wondering if I can play.

Jaromir Jagr

PeopleI CanPlayWonderingLot

It isn't generally the case that liberals dominate entire hierarchies. That isn't generally how it works, because the hierarchies are usually set up so that conservatives fill up the hierarchies; it's in the nature of hierarchy.

Jordan Peterson

NatureUpHierarchyBecauseSetHow

I wish that I did the things that I really believe in, because when I do, my life goes much smoother.

Cher

LifeBelieveMy LifeWishI Wish

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