01-10-2013, 01:27 PM
It takes time. It took me years to start knowing if what I wrote was good. And still as you say here it's largely a subjective matter of taste. In a workshop we can help each other with common issues, we can help the writer know if the poem connected with us, but that's about it. It mostly is just a matter of practice and time.
The secret of poetry is cruelty.--Jon Anderson