“If I'm excited by something bodily, and curious about it, I generally want to delve into it and explore it with poetry. That's the way I ordinarily watch the world around me.” IfsWorldWayWantWatchesExcitedCurious Author:Pattiann Rogers
“I think the language of science is highly lyrical and evocative and an important part of our lives in many ways.” ThinkingWayImportantLanguageOur LivesLyrical Author:Pattiann Rogers
“The poem is a process, a way for me to discover questions, to ask them clearly or to discover the results of certain suppositions. Suppositions are a form of questioning.” WayFormCertainAsksProcessResultsQuestioningSupposition Author:Pattiann Rogers
“I'm primarily a poet, so I'd have to say in my case I'd investigate the mystery in poetry in a different way than prose might investigate it, in a way that includes the power of the music of language and maybe more imaginatively in poetry, but I don't really know about better or worse. I guess it depends on the writer.” KnowsWayDifferentMightLanguageCasesMysteryPoetDependsDifferent WaysProse Author:Pattiann Rogers
“We're all vulnerable in our various ways, and what we are physically, our bodies, is what has developed with the goal of keeping that life safe and intact, at least until we have procreated. That's what our bodies are, the protection of life.” WayBodyGoalSafeVariousProtectionVulnerable Author:Pattiann Rogers
“As far as I can tell, writing the essays didn't change the way I wrote poetry. Although the essays contain scattered passages that might be called lyrical, they often contain closed statements of what is only suggested in the poetry.” WayWritingI CanMightStatementsPassagesEssaysLyrical Author:Pattiann Rogers
“Straight up from this road Away from the fitted particles of frost Coating the hull of each chick pea, And the stiff archer bug making its way In the morning dark, toe hair by toe hair, Up the stem of the trillim, Straight up through the sky above this road right now, The galaxies of the Cygnus A cluster Are colliding with each other in a massive swarm Of interpenetrating and exploding catastrophes. I try to remember that.” WayTryingRememberDarkMorningSkyHairRight NowAweMassiveStemToesCatastropheGalaxyBugsParticlesChicksFrostExplodingPeasArcherStraight UpSwarmsClustersHullHair Up Book:The Expectations of Light Source: The Expectations of Light
