C. K. Williams Quotes

• Poetry confronts in the most clear-eyed way just those emotions which consciousness wishes to slide by.

  C. K. Williams

  Poetry, Wish, Way

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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

  Writing, Waiting, Ordinary

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• If you spend your whole life being depressed about life, youre wasting it.

  C. K. Williams

  Being Depressed, Whole Life, Whole

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• The more I write, the more the silence seems to be eating away at me.

  C. K. Williams

  Writing, Silence, Eating

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• A dark poem is meant to redeem the dark part.

  C. K. Williams

  Dark

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