Quotes by C. K. Williams

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

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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.

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

  ― C. K. Williams
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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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Subjects in these quotes:

• grandfather
• differently
• grandparent
• pleasurable
• tenderness
• incredibly

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