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… — 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
