"I approach writing a poem in a much different state than when I am writing prose. It's almost as if I were working in a different language when I'm writing poetry. The words - what they are and what they can become - the possibilities of the words are vastly expanded for me when I'm writing a poem."

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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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“There are a lot of tricks you have to keep playing on yourself to keep at it because every time you hit a problem you want to walk away.”
“We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.”
“People are afraid of changing; that they're losing something. They don't understand that they are also gaining something.”

Source : "Romancing With Stone". Interview with Jessica Boden, www.newyou.com. March 14, 2014.
“No amount of love can cure madness or unblacken one's dark moods. Love can help, it can make the pain more tolerable, but, always, one is beholden to medication that may or may not always work and may or may not be bearable”
“I've never presented myself as anything less than a flawed person.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“I'm going to take over on the Techno Comics so I'm going to be dealing in the children's merchandising type department. But that's just setting it up and having somebody run it.”
“You should not be subjected to the pressures, the intimidation, whether by Government or by the private sector, which would force you into self-censorship.”
“When my stories were translated into other languages and received good reviews in the international press and won prizes, some Arab festivals and newspapers began to take an interest in what I had produced. This sudden Arab interest is a form of hypocrisy and nonsense.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

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