Poets other than Rokkasen were, however, regarded as too worse to refer to (There are others as well who are known, as numerous as the leaves of the trees of the forest, as widespread as the ivy which crawls in the fields, but they think anything they compose is poetry and do not know what poems are.), thus Rokkasen poets were valued as worth reviewing.
しかしながら、六歌仙以外の歌人は評価にすら値しないとされているため(このほかの人々、その名聞こゆる野辺に生ふるかづらの這ひ広ごり林にしげき木の葉のごとくに多かれど、歌とのみ思ひてその様知らぬなるべし)、逆に6人を評価している事になる。