K.J. ParkerSecretly, deep down, everybody on Earth believes they can write poetry, apart from the members of the Poets' Guild, who know they can't.
About This Quote
This is a humorous way of saying that the people who think they're good at writing poems are actually just fooling themselves. The members of the Poets' Guild have been told that they can't write poetry, and they believe it. They know that they can't write a poem, but they also know that others don't have this knowledge. They know this because their friends tell them so. Therefore, everyone secretly believes they can write poetry, even if nobody else knows it.
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