"A man's pursuit of knowledge is greater than……" — Natasha Trethewey
"A man's pursuit of knowledge is greater than his shortcomings, the limits of his vision."
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Natasha Trethewey
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31 Quotes by Natasha Trethewey
Natasha Trethewey has 31 quotes on this site.
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What's left is palimpsest—one memory bleeding into another, overwriting it.
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What is love?/ One name for it is knowledge.
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I was deeply moved by Richard Blanco's reading of his inaugural poem-a timely and elegant tribute to the great diversity…
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Jesmyn Ward left her Gulf Coast home for education and experience, but it called her back. It called on her…
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First, I emptied the closets of your clothes, threw out the bowl of fruit, bruised from your touch, left empty…
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When I was born here in Gulfport in 1966, my parents' interracial marriage was still illegal. And it was very…
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I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship…
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There are indeed all sorts of men/ who visit here: those who want/ nothing but to talk or hear the…
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I don't like a kind of workshop that is about editing--I don't want to sit there and be an editor.…
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You can get there from here, though there's no going home. Everywhere you go will be somewhere you've never been.…
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When you begin to think about the past, you realize how much of it is lost to us.
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I want to be the best advocate and promoter for poetry that I can be.
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