"First they came for the verbs and I said nothing, for verbing weirds language. Then they arrival for the nouns and I speech nothing, for I no verbs." - Ria Bacon on riabacon.com *** This just struck me as clever and maybe even insightful, on so many levels.
In the sense that you should never let rules inhibit or silence you, only apply them when you feel your writing sounds wrong.
Exactly true. As it undoubtedly will if you're unaware of the function and don't have some respect the effect of rules, to begin with.