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Ars Poetica Or: Epistle to Ebard

true poetry must speak in spontaneous speech like unto the will of the fleeting wind it sings its own note and tune to teach the heart what is to be heard                                            it need not be expressed to hide mirth and misery to maintain the manner you learned by heart nor shall you lack of caution when using prosaic or archaic words in your verse a dead word is dead if it stands alone but lives if it is constantly used nor an archaic used in any attempts in prose or in poetry which may denote or connote a new meaning worth knowing never deprive yourself as to ignore the transient music in your inmost self and the personae that whispers freely into th’ ears of your imagination what you hear is the true poetry itself and however old it is always new have you no trouble to be one with nature earnest meditation becalms the soul when filled with nature’s symmetry express what the soul devoured what the mind installed oft you may not see the flaws in your art as those