Juan Felipe Herrera Quotes

• A poem is a flexible thing, and a poem is a poem.

  Juan Felipe Herrera

  Flexible

  "New Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera Sings Out". Interview with Brendan Francis Newnam, www.dinnerpartydownload.org. July 3, 2015.

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• We can understand poetry from a billion - in a billion styles, experiment, tradition, combination, spice, meter, image. It's all there for the poet and for the listener and for all of us.

  Juan Felipe Herrera

  Style, Spices, Tradition

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Before you go further, let me tell you what a poem brings, first, you must know the secret, there is no poem to speak of, it is a way to attain a life without boundaries.

  Juan Felipe Herrera

  Secret, Way, Firsts

  Juan Felipe Herrera (2008). “Half of the World in Light: New and Selected Poems”, p.301, University of Arizona Press

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