Romantic poetry ... recognizes as its first commandment that the will of the poet can tolerate no law above itself. (Friedrich Schlegel)

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

Friedrich Schlegel

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