Quotes by Juan Felipe Herrera

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

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

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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."

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