Quotes by : Juan Felipe Herrera

First grade was - I spoke only Spanish, and second grade - probably a bit more English. And by the time....

I gave my voice to poetry.

Poetry can tell us about what's going on in our lives - not only our personal but our social and political....

My mother was a washerwoman - or a woman that cleaned houses in Texas... in Plano, Texas - who always....

I tell my workshop students, 'I want you to think of yourselves as artists. Then, when you're writing,....

Let's detox our cluttered academic brain. That's what the poet does. People call it daydreaming, detoxing....

San Diego shaped me a lot. The visual landscapes, the emotional panoramas, the teachers and mentors I....

Poetry is a call to action, and it also is action.

If I can only be known as one thing, then, well, I guess it would be poet and performer and teacher.

Poetry, as odd as it is, and as hard to figure out as it is, many times, it's almost something that we're....