"Poetry doesn't function by saying things straightforwardly because the language is too imprecise, too limited often, to address the underlying subject of most 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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“Part of history is facts. The other part is what we find easier to believe.”
“You need to get to the future, ahead of your customers, and be ready to greet them when they arrive.”
“The whole of organic nature on our planet exists only by a relentless war of all against all. ... The raging war of interests in human society is only a feeble picture of an unceasing and terrible war of existence which reigns throughout the whole of the living world.”
“I bring terror like Stephen King, A black Casanova, runnin ***** over like Christine”
“In fiction the story lives the more everyone comes to life, the more each character seems to exist in his or her own right.”
“I am perfectly confident that the man who does not spend hours alone with God will never know the anointing of the Holy Spirit.”
“I've been attracted to Kate Moss since I was a teenager.”

Source : Interview with with Gerald Matt, Synne Genzmer, www.americansuburbx.com. September 2007.
“Anything is possible as long as you want it, you work for it. Doesn't matter what anyone else thinks, the only person that can really put pressure on you is yourself”

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