I approach writing a poem in a much different state than when I am writing prose. It's almost … - Pattiann Rogers

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What does so-called success or failure matter if only you have succeeded in doing the thing you set out to do. The DOING is all that really counts.

Pattiann Rogers

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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Poetry is very playful with language. I think all poetry, at its heart, is playful. It's doing unusual and playful things with the language, stirring it up. And prose is not doing that. Primarily it's not attempting to do that.

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I don't write or think too much about the word "salvation. " I might; I probably should. We are such needy creatures, needing to be saved, to feel we are saved or might be, however we define ourselves, however we define that word.

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I think parts of my soul have been saved by my writing, not in the sense of escaping death, but escaping the death of the moment, perhaps.

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Ordering is very important with essays, even if a reader doesn't read the essays or the poems in order through the book. . .

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People sometimes think that defining a term is pedantic and useless, but terms need to be defined if they're going to be discussed, even if the terms are only defined for a single conversation. Those involved in the conversation need to know how the terms are being used.

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