Novalis Quotations | Page 2

Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.

The poem of the understanding is philosophy.

There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.

In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.

Friendship, love, and piety ought to be handled with a sort of mysterious secrecy; they ought to be spoken of only in the rare moments of perfect confidence, to be mutually understood in silence. Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.

The Bible begins gloriously with Paradise, the symbol of youth, and ends with the everlasting kingdom, with the holy city. The history of every man should be a Bible.

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

Where are we really going? Always home.

Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.

To romanticize the world is to make us aware of the magic, mystery and wonder of the world; it is to educate the senses to see the ordinary as extraordinary, the familiar as strange, the mundane as sacred, the finite as infinite.

Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.