Quotes by C. K. Williams - Page 1

I don't like denial. I don't like repression.
C. K. Williams / Poet
Denial
Repression
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A dark poem is meant to redeem the dark part.
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Dark
Meant
Part
Poem
Redeem
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I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.
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Reflection
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The more I write, the more the silence seems to be eating away at me.
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Eating
Silence
Writing
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If you spend your whole life being depressed about life, youre wasting it.
C. K. Williams / Poet
Being Depressed
Whole
Whole Life
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If you spend your whole life being depressed about life, you're wasting it.
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Being Depressed
Depressed
Spend
Wasting
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Sometimes you have a poem that you really want to write and it never happens.
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Poem
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Poetry confronts in the most clear-eyed way just those emotions which consciousness wishes to slide by.
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Poetry
Way
Wish
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My father read poetry to me, encouraged me to memorize poems. But the writing of it was quite a different thing.
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Different Thing
Encouraged
Memorize
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When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing of poems is incredibly pleasurable and addictive.
C. K. Williams / Poet
Begin
Addictive
Incredibly
Pleasurable
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I tended to write poems about both social and spiritual problems, and some problems one doesn't really want to solve, and so the problems themselves are solved. You certainly don't want to solve problems in poems that haven't been solved in the world.
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Solve
Poems
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Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in a way, the hardest thing about writing poetry is waiting for that music, and sometimes you never know if it's going to come.
C. K. Williams / Poet
Hardest Thing
Ordinary
Waiting
Writing
Different Kind
Poem
The Hardest Thing
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One becomes a grandfather and one sees the world a little differently. Certainly the world becomes a more vulnerable place when one has a grandchild, or now I have two. And I think that possibly there's some tenderness that came out of just time and age and being a parent and grandparent.
C. K. Williams / Poet
Grandfather
Parent
Tenderness
Time Age World
Sees
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I think poetry always lives its life, and people come to it and people go away from it, 'people' in the sense of larger numbers of people. It's as though you begin to think that poetry is a resource, and that at certain times people seem to need it or want it or can find sustenance in it, and at other times they can't.
C. K. Williams / Poet
Numbers
Sustenance
Life Poetry People
Go Away
Resource
Times People
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