“The world must be romanticized. In this way the originary meaning may be found again.”

— Novalis

As quoted in The Experience of the Foreign : Culture and Translation in Romantic Germany (1992) by Antoine Berman
Variant translation: Romanticize the world.

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German poet and writer 1772–1801

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