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C. K. Williams quotes: A dark poem is meant to redeem the dark part.

A dark poem is meant to redeem the dark part.

C. K. Williams quotes: Poetry confronts in the most clear-eyed way just those emotions which consciousness wishes to slide by.

Poetry confronts in the most clear-eyed way just those emotions which consciousness wishes to slide by.

C. K. Williams quotes: The more I write, the more the silence seems to be eating away at me.

The more I write, the more the silence seems to be eating away at me.

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

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

C. K. Williams quotes: Maybe shy is when you're lonely and you don't think anybody can help you.

Maybe shy is when you're lonely and you don't think anybody can help you.

C. K. Williams quotes: I am your own personal verb now.

I am your own personal verb now.

C. K. Williams quotes: I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.

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

C. K. Williams quotes: This is the wisdom of art, the knowledge that beauty perhaps is the one undeniably unique attribute of the human.

This is the wisdom of art, the knowledge that beauty perhaps is the one undeniably unique attribute of the human.

C. K. Williams quotes: Wasn't I rapt?Wasn't I ravished?

Wasn't I rapt?
Wasn't I ravished?

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

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

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

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

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

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