Danger of over editing?

[dukealien]

For sure.

I feel this, not so much in giving critique as in receiving it.  It can be overwhelming.  I guess I never considered it the other way around though.

However, I remember Mark Becker quoting to this to me:

A poem is never finished; it's always an accident that puts a stop to it—i.e. gives it to the public. (Paul Valery) often quoted in W. H. Auden' s paraphrase, ‘A poem is never finished, only abandoned’

Or, "A poem is flypaper for critique - you never get the last one."