“The mind understands something only insofar as it absorbs it like a seed into itself, nurtures it, and lets it grow into blossom and fruit. Therefore scatter holy seeds into the soil of the spirit.”

“Ideas,” Lucinde and the Fragments, P. Firchow, trans. (1991), § 5

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German poet, critic and scholar 1772–1829

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