Full Idea
Romantic poetry recognises as its first commandment that the free choice [Wilkür] of the poet can tolerate no law above itself.
Gist of Idea
For poets free choice is supreme
Source
Friedrich Schlegel (works [1798], Frag 116 p.32), quoted by Terry Pinkard - German Philosophy 1760-1860 06
Book Reference
Pinkard,Terry: 'German Philosophy 1760-1860' [CUP 2002], p.161
A Reaction
This leads to Shelley's 'poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the race'. We should also take it as a response to Kant's categorical imperative, which leads to the Gauguin Problem (wickedness justified by the art it leads to).