 and the poets have an art of contentment in which they wanted to show their purpose and demonstrate their ability to achieve obscure meanings and distant aims and each one said according to the strength of his nature except that he controlled the tongue and was pompous in speech and prolonged in expression and this is not correct in origin some of them were content that the sky shaded him
٦ وللشعراء فن من القنوع أرادوا فيه إظهار غرضهم وإبانة اقتدارهم على المعاني الغامضة والمرامي البعيدة، وكل قال على قدر قوة طبعه، إلا أنه تحكم باللسان وتشدق في الكلام واستطالة بالبيان، وهو غير صحيح في الأصل فمنهم من قنع بأن السماء تظله هو