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

Pattiann Rogers

#Mind Quotes #Juxtaposition Quotes #Attention Quotes

“Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.”

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (p. 148), 1922.
“Looking back we see with great clarity, and what once appeared as difficulties now reveal themselves as blessings.”
“Nobody can be happy. You could have moments of happiness, moments of joy. But life is very difficult. Unless you're a total idiot. Then you can be happy.”
“I think it's wrong to think of economics as money. The actual word itself actually revolves around meeting one's needs. Money is one way of meeting our needs, but it's only one way.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“We have to be more modest in what we claim.”

Source : Source: www.minneapolisfed.org
“When Sir Winton Turnbull [who represented a large rural seat] was raving and ranting on the adjournment and shouted: â€œI am a Country memberâ€. I interjected â€œI rememberâ€. He could not understand why, for the first time in all the years he had been speaking in the House, there was instant and loud applause from both sides.”

Source : Gough Whitlam's speech during a debate at the Sydney Town Hall, May 24, 2000.
“Perhaps the single most important therapeutic credo that I have is that the unexamined life is not worth living.”
“I can be drunk until 6 in the morning, and then I don't have to show up to work until 14 hours later.”

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