"When Fichte spoke of the Ego as the formative principle, the Romantic poets took this to mean that the world is a subjective creation, that is, the product of the individual subjectivity. But Fichte did not intend such a point: his concept of 'Ego' does not pertain to the individual, empirical subject but rather to the subject-principle in general, of which the individual subject is but a limited mode. (If there is any sense in which one could think of 'individuality' here, it would be the individuality of God.)"
-- German Romantics in Context, Roger Cardinal, 1975, p. 59.
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