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Natasha Trethewey Quotes

I am interested in 18th century natural philosophy, science, particularly botany, the study of hybridity in plants and animals, which, of course, then allows me to consider the hybridity of language Picture Quote #1

The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief Picture Quote #1

I overheard things in the Woolworths when I was a child, people saying, ‘Oh, poor, little thing,’ as if they had some understanding that I was being born biracial into a world that was still very difficult for interracial marriages and biracial children Picture Quote #1

I think people turn to poetry more often than they think they do, or encounter it in more ways than they think that they do. I think we forget the places that we encounter it, say, in songs or in other little bits and pieces of things that we may have remembered from childhood Picture Quote #1

My parents had to go to Ohio to get married in 1965 because it was still illegal in Mississippi. My white father and black mother Picture Quote #1

On a very personal level, I have fond memories of spending a lot of time in the Library of Congress working on my collection of poems ‘Native Guard.’ I was there over a summer doing research in the archives and then writing in the reading room at the Jefferson building Picture Quote #1

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Often as a poet I find that I am somewhat outside an experience I want to hold onto, consciously taking mental notes or writing them down in my journal - for fear that I will forget. It’s not unlike being on a trip and taking pictures, your face behind a camera the whole time - the entire experience mediated by a lens Picture Quote #1

Growing up, my birthday was always Confederate Memorial Day. It helped to create this profound sense of awareness about the Civil War and the 100 years between the Civil War and the civil rights movement and my parents’ then-illegal and interracial marriage Picture Quote #1

A man’s pursuit of knowledge is greater than his shortcomings, the limits of his vision Picture Quote #1

I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it Picture Quote #1

There are indeed all sorts of men/ who visit here: those who want/ nothing but to talk or hear the soft tones/ of a woman’s voice; others prefer/ simply to gaze upon me, my face/ turned from them as they touch/ only themselves. And then there are those,/ of course, whose desires I cannot commit/ to paper Picture Quote #1

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I am interested in 18th century natural philosophy, science, particularly botany, the study of hybridity in plants and animals, which, of course, then allows me to consider the hybridity of language. (Natasha Trethewey Quotes) The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief. (Natasha Trethewey Quotes) I overheard things in the Woolworths when I was a child, people saying, ‘Oh, poor, little thing,’ as if they had some understanding that I was being born biracial into a world that was still very difficult for interracial marriages and biracial children. (Natasha Trethewey Quotes) I think people turn to poetry more often than they think they do, or encounter it in more ways than they think that they do. I think we forget the places that we encounter it, say, in songs or in other little bits and pieces of things that we may have remembered from childhood. (Natasha Trethewey Quotes) My parents had to go to Ohio to get married in 1965 because it was still illegal in Mississippi. My white father and black mother. (Natasha Trethewey Quotes) On a very personal level, I have fond memories of spending a lot of time in the Library of Congress working on my collection of poems ‘Native Guard.’ I was there over a summer doing research in the archives and then writing in the reading room at the Jefferson building. (Natasha Trethewey Quotes) Often as a poet I find that I am somewhat outside an experience I want to hold onto, consciously taking mental notes or writing them down in my journal - for fear that I will forget. It’s not unlike being on a trip and taking pictures, your face behind a camera the whole time - the entire experience mediated by a lens. (Natasha Trethewey Quotes) Growing up, my birthday was always Confederate Memorial Day. It helped to create this profound sense of awareness about the Civil War and the 100 years between the Civil War and the civil rights movement and my parents’ then-illegal and interracial marriage. (Natasha Trethewey Quotes) A man’s pursuit of knowledge is greater than his shortcomings, the limits of his vision (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 (Natasha Trethewey Quotes) There are indeed all sorts of men/ who visit here: those who want/ nothing but to talk or hear the soft tones/ of a woman’s voice; others prefer/ simply to gaze upon me, my face/ turned from them as they touch/ only themselves. And then there are those,/ of course, whose desires I cannot commit/ to paper (Natasha Trethewey Quotes)

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