I'm always glad that other people are way smarter about my poems than I am. — Shane McCrae Copy Share Image
I actually can't listen to music and write poetry at the same time, but I do kind of think about the music… — Shane McCrae Copy Share Image
I like having a phrase lying around to get poems started. It's like having a key. — Shane McCrae Copy Share Image
I hope I can write toward my interests. But poets should be afraid of too fluidly responding to what they're interested in. — Shane McCrae Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a composer for a while, and for a while, and maybe still, I found writing music much easier… — Shane McCrae Copy Share Image
I think that the moment we're living in offers the best opportunity we've had in a long time in that a lot… — Shane McCrae Copy Share Image
I do try to incorporate particular rhythmic and generally sonic motifs I discover in music as such, and if one thinks of… — Shane McCrae Copy Share Image
If I can quote myself, I explained whatever it is I'm doing once for No Tell Motel, and I still think it's… — Shane McCrae Copy Share Image
People get anxious about dividing sorts of poetry, say Confessionalism from political poetry. But Confessionalism is very much an expression of racial… — Shane McCrae Copy Share Image
I love to read long books. I enjoy experiencing that extension. But it's not something I feel comfortable with and not something… — Shane McCrae Copy Share Image
I definitely notice the absence of character in most poetry, which is not so say that I'm an innovator in that regard.… — Shane McCrae Copy Share Image
Confessionalism relates to writers of color. I think confessional poetry is in its way very Catholic, capital C. One of the formative… — Shane McCrae Copy Share Image
That's a fairly Wordsworthian way to look at things! But yeah, actually - part of the poet's work, I think, is to… — Shane McCrae Copy Share Image
I think that the casual reader and the lyric and confession are trickily tied up together. I mean often when I read… — Shane McCrae Copy Share Image
Certainly for me prose has a dilatory capacity, insofar as I don't trust my abilities in prose. I imagine I could have… — Shane McCrae Copy Share Image
I like having a phrase lying around to get poems started. It's like having a key. — Shane McCrae Copy Share Image
I think that the moment we're living in offers the best opportunity we've had in a long time in that a lot of things… — Shane McCrae Copy Share Image
I believe rhythmic sensibility is always a product and extension of language, defined broadly, among other things. But it is an immediate product and… — Shane McCrae Copy Share Image
I love to read long books. I enjoy experiencing that extension. But it's not something I feel comfortable with and not something I think… — Shane McCrae Copy Share Image
I actually can't listen to music and write poetry at the same time, but I do kind of think about the music I've been… — Shane McCrae Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as an animal too big too kill, AND we're cornered by such animals every day. — Shane McCrae Copy Share Image
I don't know that I find either aspect of Jesus more interesting than the other, although maybe I think about the God one more. — Shane McCrae Copy Share Image
I definitely notice the absence of character in most poetry, which is not so say that I'm an innovator in that regard. Character-based poems… — Shane McCrae Copy Share Image
I think I cause a lot of headaches for editors - it's impossible to keep up with the ridiculous amount of changes I make. — Shane McCrae Copy Share Image
I do believe in Jesus as wholly God and wholly human, and I believe the human part was human. — Shane McCrae Copy Share Image
I was just thinking about how my grandparents, who raised me, would be considered "white trash," whatever that means - mostly for being racists,… — Shane McCrae Copy Share Image
