A creative writing class may be one of the last places you can go where your life still matters.
A good creative-writing teacher can save a good writer a lot of time.
Assuming you can write clear English sentences, give up all worry about communication. If you want to communicate, use the telephone.
I think it's better if you write poems that look like you.
An act of imagination is an act of self-acceptance.
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.