"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."

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

Juan Felipe Herrera

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“No, I wouldn't want the paparazzi ever following me in my life.”
“The ordinary manner of spending their time, is the only way of judging of people's inclination and genius.”

Source : Ellin Devis (1801). “The accidence: or, First rudiments of English grammar. Designed for the use of young ladies”, p.130
“I am thankful the most important key in history was invented. It's not the key to your house, your car, your boat, your safety deposit box, your bike lock or your private community. It's the key to order, sanity, and peace of mind. The key is 'Delete.'”
“These were our bedtime stories. Tales that haunted our parents and made them laugh at the same time. We never understood them until we were fully grown and they became our sole inheritance.”
“What is the point in calling anything God if it does not also hold sway in every part of one's life--especially one's politics?”
“Get the right people on the bus and in the right seat.”
“A short story is a writer's way of thinking through experience... Journalism aims at accuracy, but fiction's aim is truth. The writer distorts reality in the interest of a larger truth.”
“You cannot give the vice president the authority to declassify specific information and then turn around and say he can just give carte blanche to an assistant of his to declassify whatever he wants.”

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