I don't like poetry that doesn't give me a sense of ritual, but I don't like poetry that doesn't sound like people talking to each other. I try to do both at once. — Miller Williams Copy Share Image
“Wherever it left us, we were barely learning to live with it when here came Flannery O'Connor and Hank Williams to tell us that… — Miller Williams Copy Share Image
I don't like poetry that doesn't give me a sense of ritual, but I don't like poetry that doesn't sound like people talking to… — Miller Williams Copy Share Image
Ritual is important to us as human beings. It ties us to our traditions and our histories. — Miller Williams Copy Share Image
A thing may fail as a poem because it tries to do what a poem cannot do: it tries to become a treatise on… — Miller Williams Copy Share Image
Have compassion for everyone you meet, even if they don't want it. What appears bad manners, an ill temper or cynicism is always a… — Miller Williams Copy Share Image
“Have compassion for everyone you meet, even if they don't want it. What seems conceit, bad manners, or cynicism is always a sign of… — Miller Williams Copy Share Image
Jazz is very important. It's not something I can put my finger on. When I'm writing at my favorite time, I like to have… — Miller Williams Copy Share Image
“He lives all alone now, in the home they bought, and finally seems to be managing, more or less. Not the way he was,… — Miller Williams Copy Share Image
I put myself in a spiritual and physical place where I've learned from experience the synapses are likely to fire and the juices are… — Miller Williams Copy Share Image
For something to be useful to the spirit is not very valuable to get your covered wagon across the desert. We have adopted that… — Miller Williams Copy Share Image
