詩是人類審美意識的表現。審美意識來自於何處，即詩是如何生成是中國古代詩學探索甚多且果獲深刻的命題。源起於兩千多年前的中國古代心理詩學從「天人合一」的哲學基礎出發，探尋心物的審美感應，認為詩生成於主體與客體的審美關係中，是主體心靈與客體物象碰撞中所閃爆的靈光，是主客體微妙關係所結出的智慧之果。

Poetry is the embodiment of human esthetic consciousness. What is the source or origin of this consciousness, i.e. how is poetry generated is a subject much explored in the Chinese ancient poetics. The Chinese ancient psychological poetics dating back to over 2000 years tries to explore the esthetic interaction between spirits and objects based on the philosophic idea of Unity of the Heaven and Man. Whereby poetry is thought to be generated in the esthetical relationship between subject and object, and is the flash of inspiration out of the collision between subject and object, as well as the fruit of wisdom generated from the subtle relationship between subject and object.