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
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
