Tracy K. Smith Quotes

Listening to music and lyrics and watching movies, I think, uses a lot of the same muscles we use in reading and experiencing poetry - and yet we somehow forget that we have those when it comes to sitting down with a book of poems.

Tracy K. Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

MusicPoetryListeningBookReading

We've tapped into a huge demand, and it's up to us to fulfill that demand and to be creative doing it.

Jim Barksdale

CreativeDoingUpUsDemandFulfill

If I'm in Italy, I'll have an espresso, but I try not to get my energy from things like that.

Jessica Chastain

EnergyTryThingsGetItalyLike

Don't worry about the little factual details. Get to the heart of it.

John Lee Hancock

HeartDetailsWorryLittleGet

I just think if the song's good, sing it. I don't care who's doing it. I don't care if it's a country act. I don't care if it's a rock act. If the song's good, sing it.

John Mellencamp

GoodSongThinkCareDoingCountry

On the microphone, I'm not scared to step up and say, 'This is my ability, this is how good I am.' In other areas of life, I'm not so confident; I'm still adjusting to the photo shoots, all that stuff. But behind the mic, I'm fully confident.

Stormzy

LifeGoodI AmStepConfidentSay

I contend that it's impossible to read the Sermon on the Mount and not come out against capital punishment.

Tony Campolo

ImpossiblePunishmentOutAgainst

It might seem paradoxical that the biggest scientific instruments of all are needed in order to probe the very smallest things in nature. The micro-world is inherently 'fuzzy' - the sharper the detail we wish to study, the higher the energy that is required and the bigger the accelerator that is needed.

Martin Rees

NatureDetailEnergyWishStudy

I tend to sleep a lot.

Dean Winters

SleepLotTend

My dad is a good role model for me, and then I had a high school coach that really helped me out when I was struggling and made a big difference in my life.

Sean Covey

LifeGoodSchoolMeHigh School

In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed; we see the most indistinctly the objects which are close around us.

Richard Whately

LawHumanJudgmentSeeUsObjects

But I never had that commercial opportunity to be played on the radio, so how could I be popular?

Luther Allison

OpportunityNeverRadioCommercial

I have an awareness of a spiritual realm, and I see signs that I feel speak to me - I don't know if that falls into superstition.

Ken Leung

SpiritualMeSpeakFeelKnowSee

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