5 Metaphors for originalities

So many things among men have been handed down from century to century and from nation to nation, and the human mind is in general so slow to invent, that originality in any department of mental exertion is everywhere a rare phenomenon.

Blake's originality of manner was not, as has sometimes been the case, a cloak for platitude.

Originality in Art is the individualizing the Universal; in other words, the impregnating some general truth with the individual mind.

Originality is not the proper characteristic of an anthologist, and in the choice of extracts I have rarely indulged my personal likings when they conflicted with time-honored preferences; yet this anthology,the first published in a projected series of four or five volumes comprising the English poets from Elizabethan to Victorian times,has certain minor features that may be deemed objectionably novel.

Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.

5 Metaphors for  originalities