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" A dark poem is meant to redeem the dark part. "
C. K. Williams
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" 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. "
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" My father read poetry to me, encouraged me to memorize poems. But the writing of it was quite a different thing. "
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" I think poetry always lives its life, and people come to it and people go away from it, 'people' in the sense of larger numbers of people. It's as though you begin to think that poetry is a resource, and that at certain times people seem to need it or want it or can find sustenance in it, and at other times they can't. "
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" I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark. "
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