Novalis
Americannoun
noun
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Abrams quotes the 18th-century German Romantic Novalis: "The higher philosophy is concerned with the marriage of Nature and Mind."
From Salon • Nov. 19, 2022
The poet Novalis ascribed so much power to the Ich that after the death of his young fiancée he thought he could will himself to die.
From New York Times • Sep. 14, 2022
That pronouncement, by the German writer Novalis, appears as an epigraph to “The Blue Flower,” Penelope Fitzgerald’s great historical novel about him.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 15, 2018
Novalis, an environmental engineer, was also interested in the subject matter, but it was the beauty of the eggs, which are normally bathed in blue light at night, that drew his girlfriend in.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2018
Wackenroder and Novalis died young, and by the year 1804 the other members were widely separated.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 7 "Geoponici" to "Germany" by Various
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