“To romanticize the world is to make us aware of the magic, mystery and wonder of the world; it is to educate the senses to see the ordinary as extraordinary, the familiar as strange, the mundane as sacred, the finite as infinite.”

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About Novalis

Poet German

Novalis, born Georg Philipp Friedrich von Hardenberg, was a seminal German poet, author, and philosopher of early Romanticism. He is best known for his lyrical poetry, the unfinished novel Heinrich von Ofterdingen, and...

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