Poetry is poignant and ornate;
 Essays are deep and content-centric.
 Stele entries are true to the essence;
 Paeans, moving and melancholic.
 Inscriptions are concise and kindly;
 Telltales have a logic and cadence.
 Odes show great grace and refinement;
 Op-eds are unrepressed and intense.
 Music 's penetrating and stately;
 Speeches must sparkle with cleverness.
 Though there ever so many forms,
 All thwart evil and allow release:
 Expression, sans pride overweening,
 With no waste of words or lost meaning.

Original in Simplified Chinese:

诗缘情而绮靡，赋体物而浏亮。
碑披文以相质，诔缠绵而凄怆。
铭博约而温润，箴顿挫而清壮。
颂优游以彬蔚，论精微而朗畅。
奏平彻以闲雅，说炜晔而谲诳。
虽区分之在兹，亦禁邪而制放。
要辞达而理举，故无取乎冗长。