Poetry can tell us about what's going on in our lives - not only our personal but our social and political lives. Download Download Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Rotate quotes live personal poetry
I've worked throughout California as a poet: in colleges, universities, worker camps, migrant education offices, continuation high schools, juvenile halls, prisons, and gifted classrooms. Juan Felipe Herrera californiacampclassroom Change image and share on social
As a boy, I felt ashamed of being Mexican. I'd say I was Hawaiian. Juan Felipe Herrera ashamedboyfelt Change image and share on social
Perhaps, like the way these leaves spread out and the way they curl in many directions and how they have many features, I think that's how my road has been. Juan Felipe Herrera curldirectionfeature Change image and share on social
It is only when you watch the dense mass of thousands of ants, crowded together around the Hill, blackening the ground, that you begin to see the whole beast, and now you observe it thinking, planning, calculating. It is an intelligence, a kind of live computer, with crawling bits for its wits. Lewis Thomas antbeastbegin share on social
The thing about great poetry is we have no defenses against it. David Whyte defensegreatpoetry Change image and share on social
There's never been anything I didn't love that I didn't connect with on a personal level because, to some degree, I projected upon it. Nic Pizzolatto connectdegreelevel Change image and share on social