A poet is seldom hard up for advice. The worst part of it all is that sometimes the advice is coming from other poets, and they ought to know better.
If you want to communicate, use the telephone
A good creative-writing teacher can save a good writer a lot of time.
You owe reality nothing and the truth about your feelings everything.
Don't write with a pen. Ink tends to give the impression the words shouldn't be changed.
Maximum sentence length: seventeen words. Minimum:one No semicolons. Semicolons indicate relationships that only idiots need defined by punctuation. Besides, they are ugly. Make sure each sentence is at least four words longer or shorter than the one before it.