originative
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The originative intellectual worker is not a normal human being and does not lead nor desire to lead a normal human life.
From Time Magazine Archive
Plato and Milton, Shakspeare and Dante, and Wordsworth, had imaginations tranquil, sedate, cool, originative, penetrative, intense, which dwelt in the “highest heaven of invention.”
From Spare Hours by Brown, John
Such is the originative, prophetic character of Phæacia, which the reader must take profoundly into his soul, if he would understand the genetic history of Greek spirit.
From Homer's Odyssey A Commentary by Snider, Denton Jaques
The creative power often confers no clearness of vision on its possessor; the best critics are seldom originative men.
From Essays by Benson, Arthur Christopher
And of all this gifted company Coleridge, though not the strongest character or the most prolific poet, was the profoundest intellect and the most originative poetic spirit.
From Coleridge's Ancient Mariner and Select Poems by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
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