Entering into writing a poem is an emotional endeavor for me as well as a spiritual and creative one. Having to write those poems for the inauguration, I started asking deeper questions about my cultural identity, and my connection to America.
I was at a stage in my life where I felt sort of comfortable being a dislocated person emotionally, feeling in some ways like a man without any parti… - Richard Blanco
I was at a stage in my life where I felt sort of comfortable being a dislocated person emotionally, feeling in some ways like a man without any parti…
- Richard Blanco
I had been thinking about the question, "What do I love about America?" I kept coming back to this idea of community and home, which already obsessed… - Richard Blanco
I had been thinking about the question, "What do I love about America?" I kept coming back to this idea of community and home, which already obsessed…
As an immigrant, there's a little part of you that always says, "Well, I'm not a hundred percent American." America is some other little boy or some … - Richard Blanco
As an immigrant, there's a little part of you that always says, "Well, I'm not a hundred percent American." America is some other little boy or some …
Entering into writing a poem is an emotional endeavor for me as well as a spiritual and creative one. Having to write those poems for the inauguratio… - Richard Blanco
Entering into writing a poem is an emotional endeavor for me as well as a spiritual and creative one. Having to write those poems for the inauguratio…
What was transformative was being at the inauguration, reading my poem, and realizing that the quest for home and identity had always been part of my… - Richard Blanco
What was transformative was being at the inauguration, reading my poem, and realizing that the quest for home and identity had always been part of my…
We have always been searching for home. It's in our art... our religion... everything. - Richard Blanco
We have always been searching for home. It's in our art... our religion... everything.
Artists are the emotional historians of the world. - Richard Blanco
Artists are the emotional historians of the world.
I like the labels because I think they tell my story in a very concise way: gay, Latino. I think the responsibility that comes with accepting labels … - Richard Blanco
I like the labels because I think they tell my story in a very concise way: gay, Latino. I think the responsibility that comes with accepting labels …
Everything is symbolic. If they'd picked some middle-aged white guy, well, that would have been a symbol, but it wouldn't have been shocking because … - Richard Blanco
Everything is symbolic. If they'd picked some middle-aged white guy, well, that would have been a symbol, but it wouldn't have been shocking because …
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