#novalis

[philosophybits]

He who cannot make poems will also be only able to judge them negatively. True criticism requires the ability to create the product to be criticized oneself. Taste alone only judges negatively.

Novalis, Logological Fragments I

[cosmonautroger]

Marsha Cottrell, Novalis

[shisasan]

Novalis, Heinrich von Ofterdingen: A Romance [originally published 1802]

[hyperions-fate]

I yearn to get a glimpse of the blue flower. It is perpetually in my mind, and I can write and think of nothing else. I have never felt like this before; it seems as if I just had a dream or as if I had been transported into another world in sleep. For in the world where I otherwise lived, who would ever bother about flowers?

Novalis, Heinrich von Ofterdingen (1800)

[majestativa]

Blessed be the endless night.

NOVALIS — Hymns to the Night, cited in A Dark Muse: A History of the Occult [Ed. Gary Lashman], (2004)

[amicus-noctis]

“I live in my dreams — that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference.” ― Herman Hesse, Demian

Painting: "Self Portait" by Claude Buck

[thesobsister]

“ Anything that is strange, accidental, individual can become our portal to the universe. A face, a star, a stretch of countryside, an old tree, etc., may make an epoch in our inner lives.”

-Novalis, Neue Fragmente, No. 259

Max Ernst, Singe (1970)

Le rire du coq 5 (1933)

[emozional-mente]

Si può diventare

in quanto si è già

Novalis