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It sounds old-fashioned to say, but we have some kind of purpose for being here, not poets or writers, but all of us humans.
— Pattiann Rogers
I think parts of my soul have been saved by my writing, not in the sense of escaping death, but escaping the death of the moment, perhaps.
— Pattiann Rogers
Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.
— Thomas Merton
When I was crossing the border into Canada, they asked if I had any firearms with me. I said, Well, what do you need?
— Steven Wright
I have thought for many years that the audience any creative writer imagines has a great effect on what gets written.
— Pattiann Rogers
Armageddon!' Alex hissed. 'So do we
— Jack Kirk
I'm all in favor of poets telling about the process as much as they can. And many do.
— Pattiann Rogers
A poetic list is a talent in itself. You can write a list of things, and it can be boring.
— Pattiann Rogers
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
I'm not just pretty anymore, I am pretty for my age.
— Gillian Flynn
I've spent much of my life being attuned to watching for an image or a phrase that can trigger what might be a poem - could become a poem.
— Pattiann Rogers
I'd rather call prose poems something else, for clarity - something like "poetic prose," prose that contains a quality of poetry, but not poems.
— Pattiann Rogers
I find my way back to the door, leaving him to his new day so he may think of Rose, whose sunrises are numbered.
— Lauren DeStefano
One of the most important differences I see between prose and poetry is the music of the language.
— Pattiann Rogers
I think the language of science is highly lyrical and evocative and an important part of our lives in many ways.
— Pattiann Rogers
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 of the poem is the poem.
— Pattiann Rogers
Poetry uses language to create a music borne inside human experiences and emotions.
— Pattiann Rogers
I see my poems as interlinked. No poem gives an answer. It may offer other questions, it may instigate other questions that then become poems.
— Pattiann Rogers
Those we love don't go away, they sit beside us every day.
— Liane Moriarty
I do love writing prose interspersed with the poetry of other people. Their rhythms break into my prose and create a connection.
— Pattiann Rogers
The Past, being in the mode of memory, is closed, inalienable, and irreparable ...
— Susanne Katherina Langer
