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When Geometric Diagrams...

Novalis, Novalis poetry, Secular or Eclectic, Secular or Eclectic poetry, Romantic poetry, [TRADITION SUB2] poetry, Christian poetry by Novalis
(1772 - 1801) Timeline

English version by
Robert Bly

Original Language
German

Secular or Eclectic : Romantic
Christian : Protestant
18th Century

When geometric diagrams and digits
Are no longer the keys to living things,
When people who go about singing or kissing
Know deeper things than the great scholars,
When society is returned once more
To unimprisoned life, and to the universe,
And when light and darkness mate
Once more and make something entirely transparent,
And people see in poems and fairy tales
The true history of the world,
Then our entire twisted nature will turn
And run when a single secret word is spoken.

 

1800

 

-- from News of the Universe: Poems of Twofold Consciousness, Edited by Robert Bly

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Themes

  Light
  Night
 
 
 


Recommended Books


Hymns to the Night, by Novalis
Hymns to the Night: Spiritual Songs, by Novalis / Translated by George MacDonald
News of the Universe: Poems of Twofold Consciousness, Edited by Robert Bly
Novalis: Philosophical Writings, Translated by Margaret Mahony Stoljar
The Novices of Sais, by Novalis / Translated by Ralph Manheim

 

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