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

~C. K. Williams

Topics: Happens Never Poem Really Sometimes Want Write You

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

~C. K. Williams

Topics: Dark Necessarily Reflection Things Think

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

~C. K. Williams

Topics: Denial Like Repression

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A dark poem is meant to redeem the dark part.

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Topics: Dark Meant Part Poem Redeem

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

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Topics: About Being Depressed Life Spend Wasting Whole You Your

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

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

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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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Topics: About Been Both Certainly Poems Problems Really Social Solve Solved Some Spiritual Themselves Want World Write You

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One becomes a grandfather and one sees the world a little differently. Certainly the world becomes a more vulnerable place when one has a grandchild, or now I have two. And I think that possibly there's some tenderness that came out of just time and age and being a parent and grandparent.

~C. K. Williams

Topics: Age Becomes Being Came Certainly Differently Grandfather Just Little More Now Out Parent Place Possibly Sees Some Tenderness Think Time Two Vulnerable World I Think

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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.

~C. K. Williams

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

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: November 4th, 1936

Died: September 20th, 2015

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