“Romantic poetry … recognizes as its first commandment that the will of the poet can tolerate no law above itself.”

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Philosophical Fragments, P. Firchow, trans. (1991) § 116

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German poet, critic and scholar 1772–1829

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