Essays Quote by Pattiann Rogers

Fiction and poetry are my first loves, but the really beautiful lyrical essay can do so much that other forms cannot.

— Chris Abani

Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those…

— Marilyn Hacker

I never wrote poetry, just prose. I don't really consider songwriting a form of poetry either. The words are important, of course, but they're…

— Michael Gira

Writing wasn't just a form of expression. It was a form of pathology by embarking on spoken word over and over and over again…

— Amanda Gorman

The ingredients that make a good poem often differ from those that make a good essay and from those that make a good novel.

— Kathleen Rooney

In general, I would think that at present prose writers are much in advance of the poets. In the old days, I read more…

— William H. Gass

Each poem seems to demand its own formal approach. In both drafting and revision, I'll play around with line lengths and stanza formations, eventually…

— Allison Joseph

Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned in it.

— Stephen Sondheim

The ideal form for a poem, essay, or fiction, is that which the ideal writer would evolve spontaneously. One in whom the powers of…

— Herbert Spencer

Poetry isn't written from the idea down. It's written from the phrase, line and stanza up, which is different from what your teacher taught…

— Margaret Atwood

Poetry has roots, but they are sometimes cut off and still poetry is written.

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

When I was in graduate school, my thesis included both poetry and essays. Influenced by the personal essays of James Baldwin and Norman Mailer,…

— Stephen Vincent Benet