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

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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

“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.”

Want Writing Trying Felt Process Special Creation Reader Impression Mysterious Special Someone

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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.”

Art Sometimes Happens Goal Events Skills Athletic Clicks Inexplicable

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

Process Poet Favors

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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.”

Humans Kind Purpose Sound Poet Old Fashioned

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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.”

Way Form Certain Asks Process Results Questioning Supposition

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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.”

Knows Way Different Might Language Cases Mystery Poet Depends Different Ways Prose

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“I like poetry because poetry - even in free verse - is formal, and it has to be very concise and packed and rich, and I like the feeling of having to do that, having to make the language tight and still free, as if the deepest freedom is created by the restrictions.”

Ifs Stills Feelings Language Rich Poetry Is Verses Formal Restriction Concise Free Verse

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“In poetry I can let the language go, allow an image that seems out of place to enter and see what happens, always listening to the music that's being created, just like the world around us, never predictable, always shifting and intertwining, reflecting and echoing itself.”

World I Can Seems Happens Language Listening Shifting Reflecting Predictable

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