"I'd rather call prose poems something else, for clarity - something like "poetic prose," prose that contains a quality of poetry, but not poems."

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

Pattiann Rogers

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“We're stuck in these situations with other people and our stuff and our jobs, and thinking that we can extract ourselves from those seems doomed to me. Instead, how can we live within those systems of constraints? We don't have to enjoy them, exactly, but at least acknowledge that those boundaries are real and that they structure our response to the world. And then once you do that, you allow yourself to say "I did my best given the circumstances."”

Source : Source: app.longform.org
“Good design is not about form following function. It is function with cultural content. By adding "cultural content" to the concept of "form follows function," objects cease to be finite or predictable. Maybe the right way to interpret the dictum is to first acknowledge that the function needs to be clearly understood before the form is considered.”
“The advantage of being eighty years old is that one has many people to love.”
“Some people play the piano, some do Sudoku, some watch television, some people go out to dinner parties. I write books.”
“Your mother calls and says she hasn't seen you for a long time. The first year: You invite her for a week. You give her your room, and you both sleep on the lumpy studio couch. The fifth year: Your mother sleeps on the lumpy studio couch. The tenth year: You send the children to mother.”
“There's no "I" on the football field. We have a total commitment to each other when we're out there. There is no doubt. It doesn't matter. The wins and losses of the game don't resonate with us. What resonates with us is "how much effort would you give for the man next to you."”
“I'd rather sell reefer than do pizza delivery.”

Source : Song: Capital Punishment, Album: Capital Punishment, 1998
“I might not be Silent any longer, but I still have the perfect poker face.”

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