Are no longer the keys to living things,
When people who go about singing or kissing
Know deeper things than the great scholars,
And when light and darkness mate
Once more and make something entirely transparent,
And people see in poems and fairy tales
The true history of the world,
Then our entire twisted nature will turn
And run when a single secret word is spoken.
-Novalis
I wonder what Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg poem sounds like auf Duetsch.
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