Duende
Tracy K. Smith
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Like a god, / I believe in nothing.”
“There are ways of entering the dream / The way a painter enters a studio: / To spill.”
“Why Do we insist our lives are ours?”
“Who can say the word love When everything--everything--pushes back with the promise To grind itself to dust?”
“What's heavy Grounds us to the world.”
“What does living do to any of us?”
“There is a We in this poem To which everyone belongs. As in We the People-- In order to form a more perfect Union-- And: We were objects of much curiosity To the Indians-- And: The next we present before you Are things very appalling-- And: We find we are living, suffering, loving, Dying a story. We had not known otherwise-- We's a huckster, trickster, has pluck. We will draw you in.”
“The point is, you won't necessarily know Whether you're living a science fiction reality.”
“Somewhere in every life there is a line. One side to the other and you are gone. Not disappeared, but undone.”
“Sometimes this poem tells itself nothing matters, All's a joke. Relax, it says, everything's Taken care of. (A poem can lie.)”
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