C. K. Williams
C. K. Williams
Charles Kenneth "C. K." Williamswas an American poet, critic and translator. Williams won nearly every major poetry award. Flesh and Blood won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1987. Repairwon the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, was a National Book Award finalist and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. The Singing won the National Book Award, 2003 and in 2005 Williams received the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. The 2012 film Tar related aspects of Williams' life using...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth4 November 1936
CountryUnited States of America
C. K. Williams quotes about
The more I write, the more the silence seems to be eating away at me.
Poetry confronts in the most clear-eyed way just those emotions which consciousness wishes to slide by.
A dark poem is meant to redeem the dark part.
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.
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.
My father read poetry to me, encouraged me to memorize poems. But the writing of it was quite a different thing.
If you spend your whole life being depressed about life, youre wasting it.