Collected Poems Quotes

“Even the leftover carats of tar in the gutter, so black they seemed to suck
the light out of the air.
By nightfall kids had come across them: every sidewalk on the block was
scribbled with obscenities and hearts.”
― C.K. Williams, Collected Poems

“Sometimes I almost go hours without crying,
Then I feel if I don’t, I’ll go insane.
It can seem her whole life was her dying.

She tried so hard, then she was tired of trying;
Now I’m tired, too, of trying to explain.
Sometimes I almost go hours without crying.”
― c.k. williams, Collected Poems

“What would release be? Being forgiven?

No, never forgiven, never only forgiven.”
― C.K. Williams, Collected Poems

“…a weeping, unhealable wound,”
― C.K. Williams, Collected Poems