I like having a phrase lying around to get poems started. It's like having a key. — Shane McCrae Keys 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 Best opportunity 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… — Shane McCrae Believe 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 Book 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 Kind 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 Animal 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… — Shane McCrae Aspect 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 Absence 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… — Shane McCrae Amount Copy Share Image
I just can't write and listen to music at the same time. — Shane McCrae Listening to music Copy Share Image
I do believe in Jesus as wholly God and wholly human, and I believe the human part was human. — Shane McCrae Believe Copy Share Image
I was just thinking about how my grandparents, who raised me, would be considered "white trash," whatever that means - mostly for… — Shane McCrae Children Copy Share Image
I'm always glad that other people are way smarter about my poems than I am. — Shane McCrae Glad 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 Audience 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 Language 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 Musical Copy Share Image
I learned to write with my desk in the living room, next to the TV. But mostly in my head, and I… — Shane McCrae Able 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 Ability 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 Brain Copy Share Image
I think about the body kind of all the time, being as how I'm really uncomfortable in mine. — Shane McCrae Body 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 Catholic 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 Achievement 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 Interest Copy Share Image
I had/have a habit of sending books out before they're ready. And then I edit with almost absurd intensity. But I've done… — Shane McCrae Absurd Copy Share Image
A white noise app wouldn't work for me - I would be too distracted by the non-white noise noises I could still… — Shane McCrae Accepting Copy Share Image
