I mean then words—as opposed to content. I care what the poem says, only as a poem—I am no longer interested in the exterior attitude to which the poem may well point, as signboard. That concern I have found it best to settle elsewhere…I think the poem's morality is contained as a term of its structure, and is there to be determined and nowhere else. Only craft determines the morality of a poem.

–R. Creeley, "A Note" [Nomad, Winter-Spring 1960]