Quote from : Biographia Literaria Biographia Literaria: Chapters 1-4, 14-22; Prefaces and Essays on Poetry, 1800-181chapters 1-4, 14-22; Prefaces and Essays on Poe Book

In poems, equally as in philosophic disquisitions, genius produces the strongest impressions of novelty while it rescues the most admitted truths from the impotence caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.