Sayyiduna Awf bin Malik (may Allah be pleased with him) said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "That the belly of one of you be filled from below his navel to his throat with pus sloshing around inside, is better for him than that it be filled with poetry."
Hadith Referenceالمعجم الكبير للطبراني / باب العين / 15235