Zitat des Tages von 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 thing about writing poetry is waiting for that music, and sometimes you never know if it's going to come.
If you spend your whole life being depressed about life, you're wasting it.
I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.
I tended to write poems about both social and spiritual problems, and some problems one doesn't really want to solve, and so the problems themselves are solved. You certainly don't want to solve problems in poems that haven't been solved in the world.
A dark poem is meant to redeem the dark part.
Sometimes you have a poem that you really want to write and it never happens.
