“Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.”
Novalis book Blüthenstaub
Motto
Blüthenstaub (1798)
“Plenty has made me poor.”
Book III, 466
Variant translation: Abundance makes me poor.
Metamorphoses (Transformations)
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