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• ‟ 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
  

• ‟ One of my main wishes in wanting to write about my mother was to explore the impact of her death on my life, explore our relationship, think about the different versions of myself that I was with and without her. I also had the really strong wish to bring her to life for my children, who were born after she was gone.

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• ‟ I love the sense of looking at the sad, paltry, and yet very familiar spectacle that we must make from moment to moment in our lives, and in our frenzy, as something that's as out there as alien life.

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• ‟ I have kept journals at different times in my life. And a lot of my early notebooks became places where I would just think on the page, trying to parse what I was feeling, to find out what I was thinking.

  - Tracy K. Smith
  

• ‟ I have kept journals at different times in my life. And a lot of my early notebooks became places where I would just think on the page, trying to parse what I was feeling, to find out what I was thinking.

  - Tracy K. Smith
  

• ‟ What excites me is that I'm an ambassador for poetry, which is something that I wholeheartedly believe in and that has been an anchor and a force of stability and consolation throughout my life. I think that's good news.

  - Tracy K. Smith
  

• ‟ I have three kids, so children's literature is a big part of my life.

  - Tracy K. Smith
  

• ‟ I have three kids, so children's literature is a big part of my life.

  - Tracy K. Smith