Poetry Quote by Novalis — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.”

“Sometimes with the most intense pain a paralysis of sensibility occurs. The soul disintegrates--hence the deadly frost--the free power of the mind--the shattering, ceaseless wit of this kind of despair. There is no inclination for anything any more--the person is alone, like a baleful power--as he has no connection with the rest of the world he consumes himself gradually--and in accordance with his own principle he is--misanthropic and misotheos.”

“One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand”

“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”

“Love's language is imprecise,”

“Eros the melter of limbs (now again) stirs me -”

“The secret of poetry is never explained - is always new. We have not got farther than mere wonder at the delicacy of the touch, & the eternity it inherits. In every house a child that in mere play utters oracles, & knows not that they are such. 'Tis as easy as breath. 'Tis like this gravity, which holds the Universe together, & none knows what it is.”

“We had the experience but missed the meaning,”

“The South-wind brings”

“If I can see pain in your eyes then share with me your tears. If I can see joy in your eyes then share with me your smile.”