I find this strangely comforting

A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating.
The worse their rhymes, the more picturesque they look.
The mere fact of having published a book of second-rate sonnets make a man quite irresistible.
He lives the poetry he cannot write.
The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.

Oscar Wilde