Tracy K. Smith Quotes

So much of my poetry begins with something that I can describe in visual terms, so thinking about distance, thinking about how life begins and what might be watching us. - Tracy K. Smith

I grew up in northern California in a town called Fairfield, which is kind of exactly between San Francisco and Sacramento, a small suburb. And I'm the youngest of five children. - Tracy K. Smith

I feel like it's a gift for any writer to be recognized like this. - Tracy K. Smith

For me, a poem is an opportunity to kind of interrogate myself a little bit. - Tracy K. Smith

Brooklyn is kind of my writer's retreat. - Tracy K. Smith

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