A Question about Poets and Poetry.

This actually plays into something I just heard Eckhart Tolle, author of "A New Earth: Awakening to Your LIfe's Purpose," say in an interview when he was asked HOW he writes his books. His response was something like (paraphrased, and italics are mine):

"It's not a decision-making process. It comes from consciousness. When you are in touch with stillness, sometimes an impulse/feeling/sense that something wants to be born into the world emerges.

"Every morning I set space aside for writing until 2 p.m. Some days I wrote a few lines, sometimes a lot. I always honored the space. My thinking had to be reliant on something deeper.

"The answers to who you are and what life wants from you are in the repetitive moments of stillness. Invite those moments into your life, that's where the answers are."

In that context, your carpenter seems to be thinking only, and thinking only on the surface. He make take personal pleasure in his bird house, but his carepentry will probably not impact the world in any real way.  So is he really a carpenter? More of a dreamer, an amateur, a person with a fun hobby I think and not so much a craftsman. Certainly not an "artist."

I'll continue to ponder this.