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....

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

the wages of empire is myopia

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

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

The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself....

My father, Eric Trethewey, is a poet, so I had one right inside the house. And on long trips, he'd tell....

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

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

I don't like a kind of workshop that is about editing--I don't want to sit there and be an editor. I....