Often when I write poetry I don't quite know what I'm saying myself. I mean, I can't restate the poem. The meaning… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
One of the most important differences I see between prose and poetry is the music of the language. — Pattiann Rogers Differences Copy Share Image
I'd rather call prose poems something else, for clarity - something like "poetic prose," prose that contains a quality of poetry, but… — Pattiann Rogers Clarity Copy Share Image
To my mind, most prose poems are more prose than poetry. They don't possess most of the qualities of a poem. — Pattiann Rogers Mind Copy Share Image
I have thought for many years that the audience any creative writer imagines has a great effect on what gets written. — Pattiann Rogers Audience Copy Share Image
Poetry uses language to create a music borne inside human experiences and emotions. — Pattiann Rogers Emotion Copy Share Image
I'm all in favor of poets telling about the process as much as they can. And many do. — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
Poetry is so close to music, not just in cadence and sound but in silences. That's why, to me, I can't talk… — Pattiann Rogers Cadence Copy Share Image
People sometimes think that defining a term is pedantic and useless, but terms need to be defined if they're going to be… — Pattiann Rogers Communication Copy Share Image
I approach writing a poem in a much different state than when I am writing prose. It's almost as if I were… — Pattiann Rogers Approach Copy Share Image
For me, prose is never a poem. Because with prose there are so very few tools to create the music. And one… — Pattiann Rogers Ability Copy Share Image
How can I appreciate light from an aging sun shining through new configurations neither pine nor ash? How can I extol the… — Pattiann Rogers Aging Copy Share Image
As far as I can tell, writing the essays didn't change the way I wrote poetry. Although the essays contain scattered passages… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
I think my prose - mine and that of others - sometimes slips into a cadence or rhythm that can replicate or… — Pattiann Rogers Cadence Copy Share Image
Often I'm struck by something that I read; then I go and research it a little more, especially if I begin a… — Pattiann Rogers Books Copy Share Image
We're all vulnerable in our various ways, and what we are physically, our bodies, is what has developed with the goal of… — Pattiann Rogers Body Copy Share Image
From the beginning I felt that I didn't ever want to leave the impression that the process of writing a poem is… — Pattiann Rogers Creation Copy Share Image
“Grand Sky/Grand Prairie Both harbor the vastness of space. One holds the space Of starlight, thunder snow, rock and icy comets, scrolls… — Pattiann Rogers Day and night Copy Share Image
In I Praise My Destroyer, Diane Ackerman demonstrates once again her love for the specific language that rises from the juncture of… — Pattiann Rogers Apricots Copy Share Image
“Mothers,fathers,our kind,tell me again that death doesn't matter.Tell me it's just a limitation of vision ,a fold of landscape,a deep flax-and-poppy-filled gully… — Pattiann Rogers Death Copy Share Image
Straight up from this road Away from the fitted particles of frost Coating the hull of each chick pea, And the stiff… — Pattiann Rogers Archer Copy Share Image
“Don't you know This is precisely what I seek, mad myself To envelope every last drupe and pearl shaped ovule, Every nip… — Pattiann Rogers Gardening Copy Share Image
“Seeing the God statement Suppose the statement Blessed Are the pure in heart, for they shall see God were placed like a… — Pattiann Rogers Blessed Copy Share Image
“The Estate of Solemnity By right, it reigns in its places- in long beards Of spanish moss hanging from a live oak… — Pattiann Rogers Desert Copy Share Image
“The Highest Octaves of Light Sands, in wild winds of surging waves Over the desert dunes, sing with the tones Of tiny… — Pattiann Rogers Eternal light Copy Share Image
“Calling to Measure It’s an obsession now, this matching And measuring, comparing, for instance, The coral-violet of the inner lip Of a… — Pattiann Rogers Longing Copy Share Image
“Death Vision I think it’s a multiplication of sight, Like after a low hovering autumn rain When the invisible web of funnel… — Pattiann Rogers Death Copy Share Image
“The Congregating of Stars They often meet in mountain lakes, No matter how remote, no matter how deep Down and far they… — Pattiann Rogers Astronomy Copy Share Image
“Statement Preliminary to the Invention of Solace Whether they bend as compliantly as black leaves Curved and hanging in the heavy dew… — Pattiann Rogers Calm water Copy Share Image
“TAKING LEAVE Of the unhindered motion in the million swirled and twisted grooves of the juniper driftwood lying in the sand; taking… — Pattiann Rogers Driftwood Copy Share Image
Ordering is very important with essays, even if a reader doesn't read the essays or the poems in order through the book... — Pattiann Rogers Book Copy Share Image
It sounds old-fashioned to say, but we have some kind of purpose for being here, not poets or writers, but all of… — Pattiann Rogers Humans Copy Share Image
I think parts of my soul have been saved by my writing, not in the sense of escaping death, but escaping the… — Pattiann Rogers Death Copy Share Image
Poetry doesn't function by saying things straightforwardly because the language is too imprecise, too limited often, to address the underlying subject of… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
I see my poems as interlinked. No poem gives an answer. It may offer other questions, it may instigate other questions that… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
The greatest tragedy that can befall a poet is to be praised by being misunderstood. — Pattiann Rogers Being misunderstood Copy Share Image
I do love writing prose interspersed with the poetry of other people. Their rhythms break into my prose and create a connection. — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
When the music created by the sounds and ordering of the words matches the thrust of the meanings of the words, then… — Pattiann Rogers Awareness Copy Share Image
I think the language of science is highly lyrical and evocative and an important part of our lives in many ways. — Pattiann Rogers Evocative Copy Share Image
I've spent much of my life being attuned to watching for an image or a phrase that can trigger what might be… — Pattiann Rogers Life Copy Share Image
