"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 â€” the sentiments that make us susceptible to sentimentality â€” actually exist."

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Source : "Wipe That Smirk Off Your Poem". www.nytimes.com. March 16, 2015.

Tracy K. Smith

#Lonely Quotes #Smart Quotes #Emotional Quotes

“I was obsessed with religious questions, the basics: Why are we here? Why is the world so beautiful?”
“The wrinkles in my brow, The furrows in my face, Say, limping age will lodge him now Where youth must give him place.”
“Everyone knows about the substantive issues of concern, like federal health care, but very little is said about the process, the lack of accountability.”
“Do not swallow bait offered by the enemy. Do not interfere with an army that is returning home.”
“Striving to better, oft we mar whatâ€™s well.”
“That whole country, Malaysia has a history of telling other countries back off, we`ll do our business. They`re pretty stubborn bunch of people. So they will do what they have to do.”

Source : Source: www.msnbc.com
“He who seldom thinks of heaven is not likely to get thither; as the only way to hit the mark is to keep the eye fixed upon it.”
“Government today is growing too strong to be safe. There are no longer any citizens in the world there are only subjects. They work day in and day out for their masters they are bound to die for their masters at call. Out of this working and dying they tend to get less and less.”

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