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> [I've been most happy to be an advocate for the kinds of grassroots things that people are doing who care about poetry.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/natasha-trethewey/i-ve-been-most-happy-to-be-an-advocate-for-the-kinds-of-grassroots/)

[Natasha Trethewey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/natasha-trethewey/)

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> [I want to be the best advocate and promoter for poetry that I can be.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/natasha-trethewey/i-want-to-be-the-best-advocate-and-promoter-for-poetry-that-i-can-be/)

[Natasha Trethewey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/natasha-trethewey/)

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## More by Natasha Trethewey

> [I was always very aware of the nature of the place where I was growing up in Gulfport, Mississippi, how that place was shaping…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/natasha-trethewey/i-was-always-very-aware-of-the-nature-of-the-place-where-i-was/)

[Natasha Trethewey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/natasha-trethewey/)

> [My own journey in becoming a poet began with memory - with the need to record and hold on to what was being lost.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/natasha-trethewey/my-own-journey-in-becoming-a-poet-began-with-memory-with-the-need-to/)

[Natasha Trethewey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/natasha-trethewey/)

> [“the little fires set the flames of an idea licking the page how knowledge burns”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/natasha-trethewey/the-little-fires-set-the-flames-of-an-idea-licking-the-page-how/)

[Natasha Trethewey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/natasha-trethewey/)

> [I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/natasha-trethewey/i-think-there-is-a-poem-out-there-for-everyone-to-be-an-entrance-into/)

[Natasha Trethewey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/natasha-trethewey/)

> [When I write notes in my journal, I'm just trying to scribble down as much as possible. Later on, I decide whether to follow…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/natasha-trethewey/when-i-write-notes-in-my-journal-i-m-just-trying-to-scribble-down-as/)

[Natasha Trethewey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/natasha-trethewey/here-is-the-threshold-i-do-not-cross-a-sliver-of-light-through-the/)

[Natasha Trethewey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/natasha-trethewey/)

> [I started out in graduate school to be a fiction writer. I thought I wanted to write short stories. I started writing poems at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/natasha-trethewey/i-started-out-in-graduate-school-to-be-a-fiction-writer-i-thought-i/)

[Natasha Trethewey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/natasha-trethewey/)

> [My mother and my father divorced during the time that my father was getting his Ph.D. at Tulane.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/natasha-trethewey/my-mother-and-my-father-divorced-during-the-time-that-my-father-was/)

[Natasha Trethewey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/natasha-trethewey/)

> [My father, Eric Trethewey, is a poet, so I had one right inside the house. And on long trips, he'd tell me, if I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/natasha-trethewey/my-father-eric-trethewey-is-a-poet-so-i-had-one-right-inside-the/)

[Natasha Trethewey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/natasha-trethewey/)

> [I've been telling my students, 'Imitate, imitate.' And they say, 'Well, what if I plagiarize, or what if I'm not original? I want to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/natasha-trethewey/i-ve-been-telling-my-students-imitate-imitate-and-they-say-well-what/)

[Natasha Trethewey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/natasha-trethewey/)

> [I know that my tendency is to be linear, and I'm trying to find ways to subvert that. And so in 'Bellocq's Ophelia' my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/natasha-trethewey/i-know-that-my-tendency-is-to-be-linear-and-i-m-trying-to-find-ways/)

[Natasha Trethewey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/natasha-trethewey/)

> [I think people turn to poetry more often than they think they do, or encounter it in more ways than they think that they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/natasha-trethewey/i-think-people-turn-to-poetry-more-often-than-they-think-they-do-or/)

[Natasha Trethewey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/natasha-trethewey/)

> [Jesmyn Ward left her Gulf Coast home for education and experience, but it called her back. It called on her in most painful ways,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/natasha-trethewey/jesmyn-ward-left-her-gulf-coast-home-for-education-and-experience-but/)

[Natasha Trethewey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/natasha-trethewey/)

> [My name is Natasha Trethewey, and I was born in Gulfport, Mississippi, in 1966, exactly 100 years to the day that Mississippi celebrated the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/natasha-trethewey/my-name-is-natasha-trethewey-and-i-was-born-in-gulfport-mississippi/)

[Natasha Trethewey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/natasha-trethewey/i-read-the-line-over-and-over-as-if-i-might-discern-the-little-fires/)

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