I recently came across a BBC article that shares Sir Andrew Motion’s “Top Ten Tips for being a Successful Poet” (11 October  2014) While this article came out a while ago  what I most like about the article is Motion’s assumption that success relates to the quality of the poem  not to one’s “success” at being noticed  making money (hardly likely with poetry)  or anything else that isn’t directly related to being a better writer and  specifically  a better poet