Tracy K. Smith Quotes:
Ocupation: Poet
Life: b. April 16, 1972
Birthday: April 16
Poems infatuated with their own smarts and detached from any emotional grounding can leave the reader feeling lonely, empty and ashamed for having expected more. Like icy adolescents, such poetry is more interested in commiserating than acknowledging that feelings — the sentiments that make us susceptible to sentimentality — actually exist.
source: "Wipe That Smirk Off Your Poem". www.nytimes.com. March 16, 2015. 
topic: Lonely, Smart, Emotional, Susceptible, Detached
