Best Natasha Trethewey Quotes
- My obsessions stay the same - historical memory and historical erasure. I am particularly interested in the Americas and how a history that is rooted… Americas
- I am interested in 18th century natural philosophy, science, particularly botany, the study of hybridity in plants and animals, which, of course, then allows me… Allows
- A poem I write is not just about me; it is about national identity, not just regional but national, the history of people in relation… History
- My father is a poet, my stepmother is a poet, and so I always had encouragement as a child to write. Child
- I think people turn to poetry more often than they think they do, or encounter it in more ways than they think that they do.… Bits
- Often it seems that there are writers who are their best selves on the page. That Seamus Heaney was as genuine and deeply admirable in… Admirable