Natasha Trethewey Quotes

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 for me, I think as it for a lot of people, to articulate those things that seem hardest to say.

Natasha Trethewey

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 26, 1966

Topics

FatherCarPoetryPeopleMeThink

There's pros and cons of a big church. Cons is I don't get to know everybody, I don't get to go to their ballgame, I don't get to marry everybody, but the pros are you get all this community, 800 ushers come in to serve, getting there at 7 in the morning on their day off and coming in on Saturday to make all those wafers.

Joel Osteen

MorningCommunityDayChurchYouGo

George Bush and John Ashcroft were religious in a scary way, but the rational among us could always take heart that, deep down, the Bush administration was more cynical than messianic.

Matt Taibbi

HeartDeepDownWayMoreScary

My friends had to convince me to get a Twitter and Instagram.

Russ

MeFriendsConvinceInstagramGet

If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.

Mason Cooley

WisdomYouResumeExperimentsCall

We cannot choose one desktop over the other - Gnome or KDE - because there's users for both code bases.

Miguel de Icaza

ChooseOverBecauseCannotCode

I did everything I could to stay in college and pay my own way, so I think that if success hadn't come so quickly, I would still be pursuing it.

Moira Kelly

SuccessCollegeThinkWayMy Own

There are many of us thinking of one version of parallel universe theory or another. If it's all a lot of nonsense, then it's a lot of wasted effort going into this far-out idea. But if this idea is correct, it is a fantastic upheaval in our understanding.

Brian Greene

EffortThinkingUniverseNonsenseUs

I have such a love of good music that I find even melancholic music uplifting. Maybe I'm a rare breed.

Anton Corbijn

LoveGoodMusicFindRareEven

China's a big tea culture.

Alice Eve

CultureTeaChinaBig

The war on terror, sometimes known as the 'Global War on Terror' or by the clunky acronym GWOT, became the lens through which the Bush administration judged almost all of its foreign policy decisions. That proved to be dangerously counterproductive on several levels.

Peter Bergen

WarDecisionsLensSometimesPolicy

For instance, it's a little better now than it was two or three years ago, but something like 70% of the poems I receive seem to be written in the present indicative.

Peter Davison

PresentBetterNowThreeTwoYears

You learn to accept your own reality.

Shania Twain

RealityLearnYouAcceptOwnYour

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