(1) Fie on poets who claim that no poetry is of consequence but the kind they compose.
(2) Fie on poets who do not believe that, in the final analysis, only poetry of the kind they compose is of the Highest Value.
(3) Fie on poets who do not realize that no one kind of poetry can do everything of consequence that poetry can do.
(4) Fie on poets who consider anyone finding a poem of the kind they compose to be flawed must consider all such poems worthless.
(5) Fie on poets who do not risk being criticized for self-parody by driving always to take what they have often done a step further.
(6) Fie on poets who do not risk being criticized for abandoning a successful practice by composing in a mode new to them.
(7) Fie on poets who believe that analysis destroys art.
(8) Fie on poets who believe their work cannot be analyzed.
(9) Fie on poets who are cowed by a taxonomy of poetry, or who believe any other serious poets will be mushbrainedly intimidated by it into not finding their own unique voices.
(10) Fie on poets who look down on critics.
(11) Fie on poets who waste time on lists like this.
(12) Fie on poets who do not waste time on lists like this.
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