“If you spend your whole life being depressed about life, youre wasting it.” IfsWholeWhole LifeBeing Depressed Author:C. K. Williams
“The more I write, the more the silence seems to be eating away at me.” WritingSeemsSilenceEating Author:C. K. Williams
“Poetry confronts in the most clear-eyed way just those emotions which consciousness wishes to slide by.” WayPoetryWishEmotionConsciousnessClearSlides Author: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.” IfsKnowsWayWritingKindDifferentSometimesLanguageWaitingOrdinaryHardestPoetry IsDifferent KindsHardest ThingWriting PoetryDifferent Kinds Of MusicDifferent Music Author:C. K. Williams