C. K. Williams Quotes
- The more I write, the more the silence seems to be eating away at me.
- Poetry confronts in the most clear-eyed way just those emotions which consciousness wishes to slide by.
- 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…
- A dark poem is meant to redeem the dark part.
- Sometimes you have a poem that you really want to write and it never happens.
- When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing of…
- My father read poetry to me, encouraged me to memorize poems. But the writing of it was quite a different thing.