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“What triggers a poem for me is not the same as what triggers an essay. My mind is geared now to looking for, or to watching out for, the image that attracts my attention or the phrase or the strange juxtaposition that strikes me bodily, or an odd question or supposition.”

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Pattiann Rogers

Pattiann Rogers is an American poet born on March 23, 1940. Her poetry is known for its profound emotion and rich imagination, covering themes such as nature, history, and human experience. more

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“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.”

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“Poetry uses language to create a music borne inside human experiences and emotions.”

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“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.”

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“I think the language of science is highly lyrical and evocative and an important part of our lives in many ways.”

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“From the beginning I felt that I didn't ever want to leave the impression that the process of writing a poem is totally mysterious. I couldn't explain everything that went on in the creation of a poem, but I could try to explain as much as I knew. I thought readers deserved that. I didn't want to set myself apart as being someone special.”

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“Sometimes, as in an athletic event where everything clicks, inexplicable things do happen. Learning and practicing an art or a skill has always been part of the success of the goal.”

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“I'm all in favor of poets telling about the process as much as they can. And many do.”

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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.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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