الشعر هو فنّ تجسيد الظلال، وإضفاء الوجود على العدم.

“Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.”Edmund Burke — Memoir of the Life and Character of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke: With Specimens of His Poetry and Letters and an Estimate of His Genius and Talents, Compared with Those of His Great Contemporaries. Enlarged to Two Volumes (1826)