C. K. Williams quotes
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“If you spend your whole life being depressed about life, youre wasting it.”
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“A dark poem is meant to redeem the dark part.”
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“The more I write, the more the silence seems to be eating away at me.”
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“Poetry confronts in the most clear-eyed way just those emotions which consciousness wishes to slide by.”
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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.”
-- C. K. Williams
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“I'll play for Rangers as long as I can, then spend the rest of my life being depressed”
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“My whole life is controversy. What can I do? I'm like Britney Spears!”
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“I've been judged my whole life. People always expected amazing things from me.”
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“I've been doing pranks my whole life, so I guess I'm pretty good at it.”
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“I'm really the candidate who has really lived his whole life in suburbia.”
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