Natasha Trethewey Quotes

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• A man's pursuit of knowledge is greater than his shortcomings, the limits of his vision.
• What's left is palimpsest—one memory bleeding into another, overwriting it.
• What is love?/ One name for it is knowledge.
• I was deeply moved by Richard Blanco's reading of his inaugural poem-a timely and elegant tribute to the great diversity of American experience. And now…
• Jesmyn Ward left her Gulf Coast home for education and experience, but it called her back. It called on her in most painful ways, to…
• First, I emptied the closets of your clothes, threw out the bowl of fruit, bruised from your touch, left empty the jars you bought for…
• When I was born here in Gulfport in 1966, my parents' interracial marriage was still illegal. And it was very hard to drive around town…
• I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.
• There are indeed all sorts of men/ who visit here: those who want/ nothing but to talk or hear the soft tones/ of a woman's…
• 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…
• 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
• When you begin to think about the past, you realize how much of it is lost to us.
• I want to be the best advocate and promoter for poetry that I can be.
• The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace - here on earth.
• It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write.
• The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry…
• 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 name is Natasha Trethewey, and I was born in Gulfport, Mississippi, in 1966, exactly 100 years to the day that Mississippi celebrated the first…
• Before I was ever a poet, my father was writing poems about me, so it was a turning of the tables when I became a…
• My mother and my father divorced during the time that my father was getting his Ph.D. at Tulane.

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