21 quotes found
Poet · American · 1966
American poet (born 1966)
“the wages of empire is myopia”
“Poetry's a thing that belongs to everyone.”
“I think poetry's always a kind of faith. It is the kind that I have.”
“I want to be the best advocate and promoter for poetry that I can be.”
“Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.”
“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.”
“ArtifactAs long as I can remember you kept the rifle--your grandfather's an antique you called it-in your study, propped against the tall shelvesthat held your many books. Upright,beside those hard...”
“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 mo...”
“I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.”
“The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace - here on earth.”
“From the catbird seat, I've found poetry to be the necessary utterance it has always been in America.”
“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 b...”
“I think I felt at some point that I couldn't understand poetry or that it was beyond me or it didn't speak to my experience. I think that was because I hadn't yet found the right poems to invite me...”
“My father, Eric Trethewey, is a poet, so I had one right inside the house. And on long trips, he'd tell me, if I got bored in the car, to write a poem about it. And I did find that poetry was a way...”
“Even though I am the daughter of a poet, and my stepmother is also a poet, growing up, I didn't think I could understand poetry; I didn't think that it had any relevance to my life, the feelings th...”
“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 o...”
“I think the biggest thing that I have to do is to remind people that poetry is there for us to turn to not only to remind us that we're not alone - for example, if we are grieving the loss of someo...”
“'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 ...”
“I've been most happy to be an advocate for the kinds of grassroots things that people are doing who care about poetry.”
