"10 C. K. Williams Quotes & Sayings

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Born: November 4, 1936. Died: September 20, 2015 | Poet |

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

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I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.

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Dark Necessarily Reflection Things

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I don't like denial. I don't like repression.

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Denial Like Repression

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A dark poem is meant to redeem the dark part.

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Dark Meant Part Poem

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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.

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Language Music Necessity Never

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

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Happens Never Poem Really

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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.

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Addictive Because Begin Happens

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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 in the world.

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Certainly Poems Problems Really

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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.

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Numbers People Poetry Resource

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My father read poetry to me, encouraged me to memorize poems. But the writing of it was quite a different thing.

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Memorize Poems Poetry Quite

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"10 C. K. Williams Quotes & Sayings

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

C. K. Williams

I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.

C. K. Williams

C. K. Williams

A dark poem is meant to redeem the dark part.

C. K. Williams

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

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

C. K. Williams

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

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 in the world.

C. K. Williams

C. K. Williams

My father read poetry to me, encouraged me to memorize poems. But the writing of it was quite a different thing.

C. K. Williams

C. K. Williams Quotes & Sayings

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"10 C. K. Williams Quotes & Sayings

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

C. K. Williams

I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.

C. K. Williams

C. K. Williams

A dark poem is meant to redeem the dark part.

C. K. Williams

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

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

C. K. Williams

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

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 in the world.

C. K. Williams

C. K. Williams

My father read poetry to me, encouraged me to memorize poems. But the writing of it was quite a different thing.

C. K. Williams

C. K. Williams Quotes & Sayings

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