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… — 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 Image
The more I write, the more the silence seems to be eating away at me. — C. K. Williams Copy Share Image
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 Image
If you spend your whole life being depressed about life, you're wasting it. — C. K. Williams Copy Share Image
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 Image
If you spend your whole life being depressed about life, youre wasting it. — C. K. Williams Copy Share Image
Sometimes you have a poem that you really want to write and it never happens. — C. K. Williams Copy Share Image
Poetry confronts in the most clear-eyed way just those emotions which consciousness wishes to slide by. — C. K. Williams Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
