Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.
NOVALISThere is an energy which springs from sickness and debility: it has a more powerful effect than the real, but, sadly, expires in an even greater infirmity.
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The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Life is the beginning of death. Life is for the sake of death. Death is at once the end and the beginning—at once separation and closer union of the self. Through death the reduction is complete.
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Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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The 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.
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What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.
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