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When Geometric Diagrams...
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by Novalis
(1772 - 1801) Timeline
English version by Robert Bly
Original Language German
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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
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