Tracy K. Smith Quotes

Poetry is not the language we live in. It's not the language of our day-to-day errand-running and obligation-fulfilling, not the language with which we are asked to justify ourselves to the outside world. It certainly isn't the language to which commercial value has been assigned.

Tracy K. Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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YouTube is a whole ecosystem.

John Cabrera

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As a professional, you can afford to pick some stocks and be wrong about a few of them. To keep your job, you cannot take the risk of being seen to be wrong about the 'big picture' for very long.

Jeremy Grantham

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My goal and my career is definitely not to be famous. That's a really horrible goal, just to be famous for the sake of having fame.

Joel McHale

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To be honest with you, my physical state is usually dictated by the project I'm working on at a given time.

Matt Bomer

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You've got to know how to hustle. I got a lot of inspiration from my parents. My father was definitely a hustler. With six kids in the house, you always got to be hustling. And my mom, she's got sick work ethic.

Jay Pharoah

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Unfortunately, there's still a lot of beginning writers who think you can just write your first draft and hand it in.

Chevy Stevens

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Christ bears with the saints' imperfections; well may the saints one with another.

William Gurnall

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A dimple on the chin, the devil within.

Pope Paul VI

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Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality. Morality is not bribery or threats. Religion is bribery and threats. Humans have morality. We don't need religion.

Penn Jillette

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Well, you can't compete with a six foot five man in a wig.

Shemar Moore

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Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.

Thomas Paine

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Everybody is different. Some people like to share more. I just wouldn't want to spoil someone's opinion of me by them knowing me as a person instead of an artist.

Marina and the Diamonds

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