6 C. K. Williams Quotes for You to Enjoy

C. K. Williams

American Poet

Born: Nov 4, 1936

Died: Sep 20, 2015

Dark Life Think World Writing You

Related authors: Edgar Allan Poe Emily Dickinson Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Maya Angelou Ralph Waldo Emerson Robert Frost T. S. Eliot Walt Whitman

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 if it's going to come. C. K. Williams

Music You Waiting Writing Sometimes Language Every Way Kind About Poem Poems Poetry Never Come Know Going The Hardest Thing Different Ordinary Different Kind Hardest Hardest Thing Thing Necessity

If you spend your whole life being depressed about life, you're wasting it. C. K. Williams

Life You Spend About Being Being Depressed Depressed Your Whole Wasting

Sometimes you have a poem that you really want to write and it never happens. C. K. Williams

You Sometimes Poem Write Never Want Happens Really

I don't like denial. I don't like repression. C. K. Williams

Denial Like Repression

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 poems is incredibly pleasurable and addictive. C. K. Williams

Love You Writing Language Incredibly Addictive Pleasurable Something Poems Poetry Write Because Makes Begin Happens

I think poetry always lives its life, and people come to it and people go away from it, 'people' in the sense of larger numbers of people. It's as though you begin to think that poetry is a resource, and that at certain times people seem to need it or want it or can find sustenance in it, and at other times they can't. C. K. Williams

Life You People Go Away Sense Think Other Resource Though Find Seem Poetry Come Always Go Begin Times Times People Want Sustenance Certain Away Larger Lives Need Numbers

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