Crossword-Solution: POETICA 7 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Horace has expressed this for us in a brief verse of the Ars Poetica, where he says: All poets sing to profit or delight.

Wise men I know, will well allow of my choise herein: and as for such, who haue not witte of them selues, but must learne of others, to iudge right of mens doynges, let them // A booke of read that wise Poet _Horace_ in his _Arte Poetica_, // a lofty title, who willeth wisemen to beware, of hie and loftie // beareth the Titles.

And in an other schole, the _Paraphrasis_ of _Brocardus_, or _Sambucus_, shal neuer take _Aristotles_ Rhetoricke, nor _Horace de Arte Poetica_, out of learned mens handes.

But what shall we say to the "Ars Poetica" of Horace? It is crowded with lines worn smooth as old sesterces by constant quotation.

For my part, I hold, and Socrates commands it, that whoever has in his mind a sprightly and clear imagination, he will express it well enough in one kind of tongue or another, and, if he be dumb, by signs-- "Verbaque praevisam rem non invita sequentur;" ["Once a thing is conceived in the mind, the words to express it soon present themselves." ("The words will not reluctantly follow the thing preconceived.")--Horace, De Arte Poetica.