"I think there is a poem out there……" — Natasha Trethewey
"I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it."
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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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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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More Entrance Quotes
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one of 208 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in…
— Teresa of Avila
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Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before…
— Aesop
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As to the presidency, the two happiest days of my life were those of my entrance upon the office and…
— Martin Van Buren
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There are some mosques with facilities for women; it's usually a back room with a back-door entrance.
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black family to the exit…
— Saul Alinsky
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The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it.
— John Ciardi
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If one is devoid of hope and thanksgiving, he cannot for long remain sinless, for he will, in despair, have…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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God's eternal decree certainly rendered the entrance of sin into the world certain, but this may not be interpreted so…
— Louis Berkhof
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Death is given in a kiss; the dearest kindnesses are fatal; and into this life, where one thing preys upon…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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Many years ago I remember a famous actress explaining to me with perfect seriousness that before making an entrance she…
— Noel Coward
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He that will be knighted must kneel for it, and he that will enter in at the strait gate must…
— Thomas Adams
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