I never 'plan' a stanza. Words cluster like chromosomes, determining the procedure.
Poetry is a peerless proficiency of the imagination.
Your thorns are the best part of you.
A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.
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.
Wolf's wool is the best of wool, / but it cannot be sheared because / the wolf will not comply.