As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless for it is even that constitutes its genius -- the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless for it is even that constitutes its genius -- the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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