“to know a country takes all we know of love: some days better than others, but never easy to keep our promise every morning of every year, of every century, and wake up, stumble downstairs with all our raging hope, sit down at the kitchen table again, still blurry-eyed, still tired, and say: Listen, we need to talk.” LoveCountryAmericaPoetryPoemImprovingWhat I Know Of Country Book:How to Love a Country Source: How to Love a Country
“I was at a stage in my life where I felt sort of comfortable being a dislocated person emotionally, feeling in some ways like a man without any particular country. I had come to a nice space with the imaginary Cuba or the imaginary America that I thought existed.” MenCountryFeelingsNiceImaginary Author:Richard Blanco
