"Entering into writing a poem is an emotional endeavor for me as well as a spiritual and creative one. Having to write those poems for the inauguration, I started asking deeper questions about my cultural identity, and my connection to America."

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Richard Blanco

#Spiritual Quotes #Writing Quotes #Emotional Quotes

“Vanity is both a great motivator and a great deceiver.”
“I love everything about Philadelphia, and its food is like the city itself: real-deal, hearty, and without pretension. Weve always had an underdog vibe as a city, but that just makes us try harder, and I love our scrappiness and scruffiness.”

Source : "How I Write: Lisa Scottoline & Daughter Francesca Serritella". Interview with Noah Charney, www.thedailybeast.com. November 14, 2012.
“Often the oppressor goes along unaware of the evil involved in his oppression so long as the oppressed accepts it.”
“It is the unspoken ethic of all magicians to not reveal the secrets.”

Source : "'King of Magic' Copperfield brings interactive show to PAC". Interview with Ryan Chartrand, mustangnews.net. February 27, 2007.
“The first state an actor experiences onstage is the one he just experienced in life. One needs great courage not to portray this experience. One must surrender entirely to the power of one s artistic nature. It will do all the necessary things. Do not impose any solution upon yourself in advance. The quality to develop in an actor is courage.”
“Men cry because things are not what they ought to be.”
“Change is the very basis of our life, not to be fought, to be welcomed and tasted, to be seen for the gift it truly is.”
“The day of individual happiness has passed.”

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