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

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

the wages of empire is myopia — Natasha Trethewey

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

The act of making poetry is an act of hope. — Natasha Trethewey

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

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

That morning, awkward and heavy... — Natasha Trethewey

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

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

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

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

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

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

The yoke of my birth — Natasha Trethewey

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

the dark foil in this American story — Natasha Trethewey

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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