Quote by Natasha Trethewey Download Open image ““what knowledge haunts each body, what history, what phantom ache?”” — Natasha Trethewey ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“people had true knowledge of the world perhaps they would not take up arms and so perhaps he could be an aggregator of information… — Paulette Jiles Copy Share Image
“I had learnt from my work: that all pain is erased in the passage of time. Not just by, but in. In ten decades… — Kylie Ladd Copy Share Image
“We are not meant to know everything, Mae. Did you ever think that perhaps our minds are delicately calibrated between the known and the… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“In one timeless instant a complex impression, not of knowledge but of feeling, penetrated her awareness like an indelible dream. An imprint of evil… — Marcha A. Fox Copy Share Image
“Whatever I learned, Whatever I knew, Seems like those faded years of childhood that flew, Away in some dilemma, Always in some confusion, The… — Mehek Bassi Copy Share Image
“I know nothing greater, nor more worthy of the truly great man, than the patient and expressive analysis of the ways in which we… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Is it ghosts that truly haunt us, or the memory of our own mistakes that we wish we could undo?” — Laura Lam Copy Share Image
“Whoever possessed knowledge not only had power over the changeable passions of people, but also power over their thinking, over their minds, hearts and… — Peter Prange Copy Share Image
I was always very aware of the nature of the place where I was growing up in Gulfport, Mississippi, how that place was shaping… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
My own journey in becoming a poet began with memory - with the need to record and hold on to what was being lost.… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
“the little fires set the flames of an idea licking the page how knowledge burns” — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it. — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
When I write notes in my journal, I'm just trying to scribble down as much as possible. Later on, I decide whether to follow… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
“Here is the threshold I do not cross: a sliver of light through the doorway finds his tattoo, the anchor on his forearm tangled… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
I started out in graduate school to be a fiction writer. I thought I wanted to write short stories. I started writing poems at… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
My mother and my father divorced during the time that my father was getting his Ph.D. at Tulane. — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
My father, Eric Trethewey, is a poet, so I had one right inside the house. And on long trips, he'd tell me, if I… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
I've been telling my students, 'Imitate, imitate.' And they say, 'Well, what if I plagiarize, or what if I'm not original? I want to… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
I know that my tendency is to be linear, and I'm trying to find ways to subvert that. And so in 'Bellocq's Ophelia' my… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
I think people turn to poetry more often than they think they do, or encounter it in more ways than they think that they… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
