Poetry Quote by Natasha Trethewey — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“After Your Death”

“I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.”

“So many things I had thought forgotten”

“I miss you, mourn for you, and walk the streets alone- often at night, beside, I fall asleep in tears, for your dear face, yet not one word comes back to me. If it is finished, tell me, and I will raise the lid to my box of Phantoms, and lay one more love in; but if it lives and beats still, still lives and beats for me, then say so, and I will strike the strings to one more strain of happiness before I die.”

“I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake.”

“Freedom is the dream you dream”

“Poetry must be as new as foam, and as old as the rock.”