Quotes from Richard Blanco

We have always been searching for home. It's in our art... our religion... everything.

Good art and a good life answers questions. Great art and a great life asks questions.

Your life is a work of art that you will work on the rest of your life.

What was transformative was being at the inauguration, reading my poem, and realizing that the quest for home and identity had always been part of my work, but that I'd been home all along.

Artists are the emotional historians of the world.