"A poem I write is not just about……" — Natasha Trethewey
"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 to other people. I reach for these outward stories to make sense of my own life, and how my story intersects with a larger public history."
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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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A man's pursuit of knowledge is greater than his shortcomings, the limits of his vision.
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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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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
— Hannah Arendt
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It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has…
— Hannah Arendt
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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
— Aristotle
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Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature…
— Aristotle
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All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.
— Louis Armstrong
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This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
— Neil Armstrong
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All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the…
— Neil Armstrong
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In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic.
— Julian Assange
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We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization.…
— Julian Assange
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Natural history is not about producing fables.
— David Attenborough
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Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural…
— David Attenborough
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In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural…
— David Attenborough
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