A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.
Be yourself. Don't imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
Exhaust the little moment / Soon it dies.
To be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
I tell poets that when a line just floats into your head, don't pay attention 'cause it probably has floated into somebody else's head.