Love works magic. It is the final purpose of the world story, the Amen of the universe. - Novalis

How can a person have a sense of something if he does not have the germ of it within himself. What I am to understand must develop organically within me — and what I seem to learn is only nourishment — stimulation of the organism.

The art of writing books is not yet invented. But it is at the point of being invented. Fragments of this nature are literary seeds. There may be many an infertile grain among them: nevertheless, if only some come up!

The world must be romanticized. Only in that way will one rediscover its original senses. Romanticization is nothing less than a qualitative raising of the power of a thing . . . I romanticize something when I give the commonplace a higher meaning, the known the dignity of the unknown, and the finite the appearance of the infinite.