Quotes by : Natasha Trethewey

I think the biggest thing that I have to do is to remind people that poetry is there for us to turn to....

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

ArtifactAs long as I can remember you kept the rifle--your grandfather's an antique you called it-in....

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

Poetry's a thing that belongs to everyone.

I think I felt at some point that I couldn't understand poetry or that it was beyond me or it didn't....

Even though I am the daughter of a poet, and my stepmother is also a poet, growing up, I didn't think....

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

'NewsHour' is very interested in poetry, but they're also interested in not just that something's cute....

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