Top 62 Quotes by Natasha Trethewey

About Natasha Trethewey

These are some quotes by American author Natasha Trethewey Poet, who was born on April 26, 1966.

The entirety of 'Bellocq's Ophelia' was a project, and I was interested in doing research and looking at photographs and writing about them, imagining this woman Ophelia and what her life was like and the kinds of things she thought about.

Natasha Trethewey

I think that as a poet, I am always concerned about history and baring witness to history. But so often, it's through the research that I do, the reading.

I think that as a poet, I am always concerned about history and baring witness to history. But so often, it's through the research that I do, the reading.

Natasha Trethewey

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

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

Natasha Trethewey

Often it seems that there are writers who are their best selves on the page. That Seamus Heaney was as genuine and deeply admirable in person as in his poems was to me a gift, then as now.

Often it seems that there are writers who are their best selves on the page. That Seamus Heaney was as genuine and deeply admirable in person as in his poems was to me a gift, then as now.

Natasha Trethewey

'NewsHour' is very interested in poetry, but they're also interested in not just that something's cute to add on at the end of their programming, but something that actually is integrated into the news.

Natasha Trethewey

Poetry's a thing that belongs to everyone.

Poetry's a thing that belongs to everyone.

Natasha Trethewey

My obsessions stay the same - historical memory and historical erasure. I am particularly interested in the Americas and how a history that is rooted in colonialism, the language and iconography of empire, disenfranchisement, the enslavement of peoples, and the way that people were sectioned off because of blood.

Natasha Trethewey

Writers, particularly poets, always feel exiled in some way - people who don't exactly feel at home, so they try to find a home in language.

Writers, particularly poets, always feel exiled in some way - people who don't exactly feel at home, so they try to find a home in language.

Natasha Trethewey

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

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

Natasha Trethewey

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

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

Natasha Trethewey

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