So You Want to be a Roman Poet?

"So you want to be a Roman Poet?"

"Get reading, boy. The more obscure the better!"

My gosh, how I hate the ultra-learned poems we have to read sometimes. Just some poet showing off how well he knows the myths to the Nth degree--mentioning obscure places in Greece and obscure people that you  have to use the BIG dictionary to find. We get it, you're very smart. Now shut up. 

Corrigenda: A Latin professor here pointed out that it would be better to say "fieri" ("to become") rather than "esse" ("to be"). Also he suggested "quo ... quo" instead of "quantum...tantum" and that there might be a better word choice than "melius."