من بين الفنون كلها، يحتل الشعر (الذي يدين بنشأته تقريباً للعبقرية وحدها، وأقلّ ما يُهتدى فيه بالقواعد أو بالنماذج المحتذاة) المرتبة الأولى.

“Of all the arts poetry (which owes its origin almost entirely to genius and will least be guided by precept or example) maintains the first rank.”Immanuel Kant — The Critique of Judgment: Theory of the Aesthetic Judgment and Theory of the Teleological Judgment: Critique of the Power of Judgment from the Author of Critique of Pure Reason, Critique of Practical Reason, Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals & Dreams of a Spirit-Seer (2015)