Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.
NovalisThe 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.
NovalisDarwin remarks that we are less dazzled by the light at waking, if we have been dreaming of visible objects. Happy are those who have here dreamt of a higher vision! They will the sooner be able to endure the glories of the world to come.
NovalisThe mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.
NovalisDenotation by means of sounds and markings is a remarkable abstraction. Three letters designate God for me; several lines a million things. How easy becomes the manipulation of the universe here, how evident the concentration of the intellectual world! Language is the dynamics of the spiritual realm. One word of command moves armies; the word liberty entire nations.
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