Danger of over editing?

[rowens]

I hope that Marker Becker isn't dead.


The I, that is me, never thinks in terms of "this piece".


There is objective criteria for what a poem is.


And people think that they are poets, and can do what they want, and what they write will be a poem.



the answer to you questions is   


I think that. I am of the Romantic worldview.


If you are not willing to carry that zeitgeist on your back

:

There is the tension in what you write as a risk and how what all you write will be compared with what else you write.

Like an ego!