Tracy K. Smith Quotes

Lately, I've been thinking about the difference between poetry and prose, and as I've experienced it, poetry is insistent. It allows for images and statements to operate in a single space and resonate powerfully without the application to be elaborated upon and narrated.

Tracy K. Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

PoetrySpaceThinkingDifference

On Monday and Thursday, I eat fewer than 500 calories a day; then I eat like a pig for the other five days. You 'surprise' the body: keep it guessing. I got the idea from a BBC documentary about this Indian man who seemed about 138 years old and said his secret was severe calorie restriction.

Jimmy Kimmel

DayManMondaySurpriseBodyPig

Go on - but don't think you can kill my confidence. I've had experts doing it for years.

John Osborne

ConfidenceThinkDoingYouGoYears

Any finish at Le Mans is great but every time I go to Le Mans my mission is to win.

Tom Kristensen

GreatTimeWinMissionGoFinish

Welcome to post-racial America. I'm the face of post-racial America.

Tracy Morgan

WelcomeFaceAmerica

When you smile, you don't only appear to be more likable and courteous, you appear to be more competent.

Ron Gutman

SmileYouMoreOnlyCourteous

What really excites me is the unknown, and getting to grips with something you have no idea about.

Ruth Wilson

MeYouUnknownSomethingIdeaAbout

This contradiction lies here: they wish God, and they wish humanity. They persist in connecting two terms which, once separated, can come together again only to destroy each other.

Mikhail Bakunin

GodTogetherWishHumanityTwoHere

I can really serve the audience instead of making this about me and about serving myself and my pocketbook.

Lisa Lampanelli

MyselfMeI CanServingAudience

All of us who lived outside of New Orleans were horrified and heartbroken by what we saw when Katrina hit, the floods that followed the hurricane that happened.

Jonathan Demme

NewOutsideNew OrleansLivedSaw

People call me energy in a bottle.

JoJo Siwa

PeopleMeEnergyCallBottle

I'm so secluded, and I'm so private.

Dr. Dre

PrivateSecluded

Within HTC, hundreds of ideas are tested and discarded to find those rare ideas that define the HTC user experience.

Cher Wang

ExperienceIdeasFindWithinRare

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