Quotes from Shane McCrae

I wanted to be a composer for a while, and for a while, and maybe still, I found writing music much easier than writing poetry. So maybe my brain clings to it.

I do believe in Jesus as wholly God and wholly human, and I believe the human part was human.

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.

I hope I can write toward my interests. But poets should be afraid of too fluidly responding to what they're interested in.

I think about the body kind of all the time, being as how I'm really uncomfortable in mine.

I just can't write and listen to music at the same time.

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 listening to when I write.