I am hard to disgust, but a pretentious poet can do it
Originality is... a by-product of sincerity.
I never 'plan' a stanza. Words cluster like chromosomes, determining the procedure.
Your thorns are the best part of you.
When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.
War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.