Vermeer

[RiverNotch]

Poems are 
like pearls

and poets are the earlobes.

[Gardy2016]

Poems are 
like pearls

and poets are the earlobes.

So poems are useless pretty things stolen from nature. Poets are pretentious enough to hang them out for everyone to see?

[RiverNotch]

Well, pearl doesn't imply useless, and earlobes don't imply pretentiousness, but otherwise, sure. Although -- and I noted that I would revise the poem so earlier, but now I've forgotten how I was gonna do that -- one must remember that for an earring to stick, one must pierce the auricle first.