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… — Richard Blanco Copy Share Image
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 work, but that I'd been home all along. — Richard Blanco Copy Share Image
Entering into writing a poem is an emotional endeavor for me as well as a spiritual and creative one. Having to write those poems… — Richard Blanco Copy Share Image
I had been thinking about the question, "What do I love about America?" I kept coming back to this idea of community and home,… — Richard Blanco Copy Share Image
Your life is a work of art that you will work on the rest of your life. — Richard Blanco Copy Share Image
We have always been searching for home. It's in our art... our religion... everything. — Richard Blanco Copy Share Image
What was transformative was being at the inauguration, reading my poem, and realizing that the quest for home and identity had always been part… — Richard Blanco Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I was at a stage in my life where I felt sort of comfortable being a dislocated person emotionally, feeling in some ways like… — Richard Blanco Copy Share Image
Good art and a good life answers questions. Great art and a great life asks questions. — Richard Blanco Copy Share Image
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… — Richard Blanco Copy Share Image
“to know a country takes all we know of love: some days better than others, but never easy to keep our promise every morning… — Richard Blanco Copy Share Image
I like the labels because I think they tell my story in a very concise way: gay, Latino. I think the responsibility that comes… — Richard Blanco Copy Share Image
