Speaking as a sometime poet, I think this is mostly crappy advice (though e.e. cummings was a wonderful poet from time to time). The only good paragraph is: "Because nothing is quite as easy as using words like somebody else. We all of us do exactly this nearly all of the time --and whenever we do it, we are not poets." The rest of it feeds into the usual self-indulgent emotional narcissism that has done its best to wreck poetry to the point where thousands of people write it, and no one reads it. It is not just self-expression. Real poetry is a deft balancing of, among other things, all kinds of experience (not just individual feeling), and the wrestling with the complex process of heightening our common language.

yours,

Peter T.