A good creative-writing teacher can save a good writer a lot of time.
I think it's better if you write poems that look like you.
You are someone and you have a right to your life.
You owe reality nothing and the truth about your feelings everything.
If you want to communicate, use the telephone
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.