Natasha Trethewey Quotes

I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.

The act of making poetry is an act of hope.

A man's pursuit of knowledge is greater than his shortcomings, the limits of his vision.

What's left is palimpsest—one memory bleeding into another, overwriting it.

The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace - here on earth.

What is love?/ One name for it is knowledge.

You can get there from here, though there's no going home. Everywhere you go will be somewhere you've never been. "Theories of Time and Space

When I was born here in Gulfport in 1966, my parents' interracial marriage was still illegal. And it was very hard to drive around town with my parents, to be out in public with my parents.

I don't like a kind of workshop that is about editing--I don't want to sit there and be an editor. I don't want to tell someone how to "fix" a poem.

the wages of empire is myopia

I want to be the best advocate and promoter for poetry that I can be.

From the catbird seat, I've found poetry to be the necessary utterance it has always been in America.

Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.

I think poetry's always a kind of faith. It is the kind that I have.

Poetry's a thing that belongs to everyone.

I've been most happy to be an advocate for the kinds of grassroots things that people are doing who care about poetry.