The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "It is better for a man to fill the inside of his body with pus than to fill it with poetry."
Sahih al-Bukhari Book 78, Hadith 180
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Sahih al-Bukhari Book 78, Hadith 179 Next Hadith → Allah's Messenger (ﷺ); said, "It is better for anyone of you that the inside of his body be filled with pus which may consume his body, than it be filled with poetry."

Sahih al-Bukhari Book 78, Hadith 181