A dark poem is meant to redeem the dark part.

- C. K. Williams

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

- C. K. Williams

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

- C. K. Williams

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

- 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 thi…

- C. K. Williams