If you spend your whole life being depressed about life, you're wasting it. — C. K. Williams Copy Share Image
If you spend your whole life being depressed about life, youre wasting it. — C. K. Williams Copy Share Image
I think poetry always lives its life, and people come to it and people go away from it, 'people' in the sense of larger… — C. K. Williams Copy Share
My father read poetry to me, encouraged me to memorize poems. But the writing of it was quite a different thing. — C. K. Williams Copy Share
If you spend your whole life being depressed about life, you're wasting it. — C. K. Williams Copy Share
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,… — C. K. Williams Copy Share
If you spend your whole life being depressed about life, youre wasting it. — C. K. Williams Copy Share
Sometimes you have a poem that you really want to write and it never happens. — C. K. Williams Copy Share
Poetry confronts in the most clear-eyed way just those emotions which consciousness wishes to slide by. — C. K. Williams Copy Share
One becomes a grandfather and one sees the world a little differently. Certainly the world becomes a more vulnerable place when one has a… — C. K. Williams Copy Share
When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing… — C. K. Williams Copy Share
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… — C. K. Williams Copy Share
