The Start: Writing Your Own Poem

Resisting the urge to interpret contemporary poems and “wrong” dreams. BY JUDY ROWE MICHAELS

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/69588/the-start-writing-your-own-poem

Practice of an art is more salutary than talk about it.
There is nothing more composing than composition.
—Robert Frost, from his notebooks[Poetry and Prose,
edited by Edward Connery Lathem and Lawrance Thompson
(Holt, 1972)]