"To my mind, most prose poems are more prose than poetry. They don't possess most of the qualities of a poem."

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Source : "A Conversation with Pattiann Rogers". Interview with Carolyn Perry, Wayne Zade, poems.com. 2009.

Pattiann Rogers

#Mind Quotes #Quality Quotes #Prose Quotes

“Things were going very fast now. Too fast to suit him. Fantasy and reality had merged.”
“But in all honesty, I would suggest that people who want a modern "free" OS look around for a microkernel-based, portable OS, like maybe GNU or something like that.”

Source : Usenet message, January 29, 1992.
“As a kid I was enamored with fiction, most of it utterly forgettable and long forgotten.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“I used to love to draw. I didn't want to go to art class because I felt that would be too corny when I was young, but architectural drafting was the cool thing to do because there was more precision. It taught me a lot about building and structures and doorways and frames and windowsills.”
“Mattia thought that he and Alice were like that, twin primes, alone and lost, close but not close enough to really touch each other.”
“This is one of the most special golf courses in the planet.”
“Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it.”
“A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove.”

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