“When the music created by the sounds and ordering of the words matches the thrust of the meanings of the words, then a radiant state of awareness can occur.” StatesSoundAwarenessThrustRadiant Author:Pattiann Rogers
“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.” HumansKindPurposeSoundPoetOld Fashioned Author:Pattiann Rogers
“I love the language. I'm just totally fascinated by the sound and the look of words and the kinds of cadences you can create with them, the various kinds of music.” LooksKindLanguageSoundVariousFascinatedCadence Author:Pattiann Rogers
“Poetry is so close to music, not just in cadence and sound but in silences. That's why, to me, I can't talk about prose poems. I can talk about poetic prose.” I CanSoundSilenceProsePoetry IsPoeticCadence Author:Pattiann Rogers
“I think my prose - mine and that of others - sometimes slips into a cadence or rhythm that can replicate or come close to the music in a wonderful poem, and then it returns to the sound of prose.” ThinkingSometimesSoundWonderfulMinesReturnRhythmProseSlipsCadenceReplicate Author:Pattiann Rogers
