Poetry quote - food for thought?

[Leanne]

That realisation is one of the biggest hurdles poets have to overcome -- there is (almost) always a better way to say something and you might not think of it until years later, or you might not think of it at all but someone else will. Workshops are a wonderful tool (yes, we're all tools) but even if poets don't like the workshop scenario, we all crave a bit of feedback and anyone who says they write "for myself only" is telling a little bit of a fib. In that feedback, if we're open to it, there will be new ideas and directions -- regardless of whether it's in serious critique, mild or just in the "for fun" section.

There are some poems of mine that I can't bear to touch, but that's usually because they're so godawful I don't ever want to remember writing them in the first place!