Tag: Novalis

I was still blind, but twinkling stars did dance

Throughout my being’s limitless expanse,

Nothing had yet drawn close, only at distant stages

I found myself, a mere suggestion sensed in past and future ages.

Novalis

Fate and temperament are two words for one and the same concept.

Novalis

Man is the higher Sense of our Planet; the star which connects it with the upper world; the eye which it turns towards heaven.

Novalis

The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet. Where they overlap, it is in every point of the overlap.

Novalis

Poets and priests were one in the beginning, and they only separated in later times. But the real poet is always a priest, just as the real priest always remains a poet.

Novalis

We dream of a journey through the universe. But is the universe then not in us? We do not know the depths of our spirit. Inward goes the secret path. Eternity with its worlds, the past and the future, is in us or nowhere.

Novalis

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

Novalis

We are near waking when we dream that we dream.

Novalis