Don't write with a pen. Ink tends to give the impression the words shouldn't be changed.

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

...an imagined town is at least as real as an actual town. If it isn't, you may be in the wrong business. Our words come from obsessions we must submit to, whatever the social cost. It can be hard. It can be worse forty years from now if you feel you could have done it and didn't. It is narcissistic, vain, egotistical, unrealistic, selfish, and hateful to assume emotional ownership of a town or a word. It is also essential.

I think it's better if you write poems that look like you.

Assuming you can write clear English sentences, give up all worry about communication. If you want to communicate, use the telephone.

Think small.... If you can't think small, try philosophy or social criticism.