C. K. Williams Age Quotations

My father read poetry to me, encouraged me to memorize poems. But the writing of it was quite a different thing.

One becomes a grandfather and one sees the world a little differently. Certainly the world becomes a more vulnerable place when one has a grandchild, or now I have two. And I think that possibly there's some tenderness that came out of just time and age and being a parent and grandparent.