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‟ I'm a political poet - let us say a 'human' poet, a poet that's concerned with the plight of people who suffer. If words can be of assistance, then that's what I'm going to use.
- Juan Felipe Herrera
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‟ I used to stand on the corner in San Diego with poems sticking out of my hip pocket, asking people if there was a place where I could read poems. The audience is half of the poem.
- Juan Felipe Herrera
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‟ Poetry, as odd as it is, and as hard to figure out as it is, many times, it's almost something that we're used to. It's kind of like a dream language that we had centuries ago, so that when we speak poetically or write a poem about what's going on, a real difficult issue that's facing our communities, people listen.
- Juan Felipe Herrera
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‟ I know I'm representing the Library of Congress, all the people of the United States and, of course, the Latinos and Latinas as well.
- Juan Felipe Herrera
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‟ The banner of the project is 'Casa de Colores.' Under that banner, I'm going to invite people to do a lot of good things. Perhaps working in groups, working on poetry.
- Juan Felipe Herrera