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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 editingI 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
