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

Limit opportunity, restrict the field of originative achievement, and you have cut out the heart and root of all prosperity.

From The New Freedom A Call For the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People by Wilson, Woodrow

There was no room for, and no need of, the conception of free, originative thought.

From Rudolph Eucken : a philosophy of life by Jones, Abel J. (Abel John)

Imagination, in other words, is not strictly originative, but, rather, appropriative, giving a varied placing to images on hand, just as the kaleidoscope makes all its multiform combinations with a given number of pieces.

From A Hero and Some Other Folks by Quayle, William A. (William Alfred)

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