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Natasha Trethewey quotes: Goodbye is the waving map of your palm, is a stone on my tongue.

Goodbye is the waving map of your palm, is a stone on my tongue.

Natasha Trethewey quotes: Poetry's a thing that belongs to everyone.

Poetry's a thing that belongs to everyone.

Natasha Trethewey quotes: the wages of empire is myopia

the wages of empire is myopia

Natasha Trethewey quotes: A man's pursuit of knowledge is greater than his shortcomings, the limits of his vision.

A man's pursuit of knowledge is greater than his shortcomings, the limits of his vision.

Natasha Trethewey quotes: The act of making poetry is an act of hope.

The act of making poetry is an act of hope.

Natasha Trethewey quotes: You can get there from here, though there's no going home.Everywhere you go will be somewhere you've never been.Theories of Time and Space

You can get there from here, though there's no going home.
Everywhere you go will be somewhere you've never been.
Theories of Time and Space

Natasha Trethewey quotes: I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.

I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.

Natasha Trethewey quotes: That morning, awkward and heavy...

That morning, awkward and heavy...

Natasha Trethewey quotes: When you begin to think about the past, you realize how much of it is lost to us.

When you begin to think about the past, you realize how much of it is lost to us.

Natasha Trethewey quotes: Often people would mistake me for white when I was younger, and I didn't correct them; there would be a period of time that they just thought I was.

Often people would mistake me for white when I was younger, and I didn't correct them; there would be a period of time that they just thought I was.

Natasha Trethewey quotes: what knowledge haunts each body, what history, what phantom ache?

what knowledge haunts each body, what history, what phantom ache?

Natasha Trethewey quotes: I find myself frequently introducing myself to someone, saying that, you know, I've grown up black and biracial in the United States.

I find myself frequently introducing myself to someone, saying that, you know, I've grown up black and biracial in the United States.

Natasha Trethewey quotes: For a long time, I've been interested in cultural memory and historical erasure.

For a long time, I've been interested in cultural memory and historical erasure.

Natasha Trethewey quotes: I don't like a kind of workshop that is about editingI don't want to sit there and be an editor. I don't want to tell someone how to "fix" a

I don't like a kind of workshop that is about editing
I don't want to sit there and be an editor. I don't want to tell someone how to "fix" a poem.

Natasha Trethewey quotes: The yoke of my birth

The yoke of my birth

Natasha Trethewey quotes: I read the line over and over as if I might discern the little fires set the flames of an idea licking the page how knowledge burns

I read the line over and over as if I might discern the little fires set the flames of an idea licking the page how knowledge burns

Natasha Trethewey quotes: He is dark as history, origin of the word native: the weight of blood

He is dark as history, origin of the word native: the weight of blood

Natasha Trethewey quotes: Even as I think of myself as a 'rememberer,' I also know my memory is probably doing all this work to reconstruct a narrative where I come off better.

Even as I think of myself as a 'rememberer,' I also know my memory is probably doing all this work to reconstruct a narrative where I come off better.

Natasha Trethewey quotes: Here is the threshold I do not cross: a sliver of light through the doorway finds his tattoo, the anchor on his forearm tangled in its chain.

Here is the threshold I do not cross: a sliver of light through the doorway finds his tattoo, the anchor on his forearm tangled in its chain.

Natasha Trethewey quotes: I think poets are people who are like this; for whatever reason you feel psychological exile because you're always an outsider...

I think poets are people who are like this; for whatever reason you feel psychological exile because you're always an outsider...

Natasha Trethewey quotes: Why not make a fiction of the mind's fictions?

Why not make a fiction of the mind's fictions?

Natasha Trethewey quotes: I want to be the best advocate and promoter for poetry that I can be.

I want to be the best advocate and promoter for poetry that I can be.

Natasha Trethewey quotes: I think poetry's always a kind of faith. It is the kind that I have.

I think poetry's always a kind of faith. It is the kind that I have.

Natasha Trethewey quotes: the dark foil in this American story

the dark foil in this American story

Natasha Trethewey quotes: Writers, particularly poets, always feel exiled in some way - people who don't exactly feel at home, so they try to find a home in language.

Writers, particularly poets, always feel exiled in some way - people who don't exactly feel at home, so they try to find a home in language.

Natasha Trethewey quotes: My father is a poet, my stepmother is a poet, and so I always had encouragement as a child to write.

My father is a poet, my stepmother is a poet, and so I always had encouragement as a child to write.

Natasha Trethewey quotes: The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace - here on earth.

The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace - here on earth.

Natasha Trethewey quotes: My mother and my father divorced during the time that my father was getting his Ph.D. at Tulane.

My mother and my father divorced during the time that my father was getting his Ph.D. at Tulane.

Natasha Trethewey quotes: What's left is palimpsest - one memory bleeding into another, overwriting it.

What's left is palimpsest - one memory bleeding into another, overwriting it.

Natasha Trethewey quotes: I've been most happy to be an advocate for the kinds of grassroots things that people are doing who care about poetry.

I've been most happy to be an advocate for the kinds of grassroots things that people are doing who care about poetry.

Natasha Trethewey quotes: It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write.

It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write.

Natasha Trethewey quotes: Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.

Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.

Natasha Trethewey quotes: My parents had to go to Ohio to get married in 1965 because it was still illegal in Mississippi. My white father and black mother.

My parents had to go to Ohio to get married in 1965 because it was still illegal in Mississippi. My white father and black mother.

Natasha Trethewey quotes: From the catbird seat, I've found poetry to be the necessary utterance it has always been in America.

From the catbird seat, I've found poetry to be the necessary utterance it has always been in America.