Poetry quote - food for thought?

[billy]

i remember many years ago, (well not so many really) that i felt most of the poets on a site wrote better than me and to a point, that was indeed the case. because of this i used everything they said in edits, after three or four days i had something which was theirs, half the poem would have disappeared, the subject matter would have changed, and it was shittier than to original to boot. but i thought they knew better and so must be right. stupidly i never realised that what they said was what affected them, get 5 or 6 with different ideas and you end up with a jigsaw puzzle that doesn't fit together. now i look at each piece of feedback and as myself "will it improve 'MY' poem, is it what i want to say"
i used to be improving their poem more often than not . often i always take heed of grammar points and try and remember them. (todd pulled me on some small i's which i'll sort out later) for me that kind of help is invaluable. gone are the days of using everything i'm given, poems end up abandoned now, whereas they never used to be .