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Inspiration with lead and pulp . . .
Novalis' "Die Lehrlinge zu Sais" was cleverly matched with fifty illustrations by Paul Klee, for a translated edition from Archipelago Books. My imagination flared with the sweeping visions of Nature, and the way in which our relationship to Nature - conquest versus conquered by, love versus hate, industry versus poetry - twists and turns like smoke in the breeze. The concluding remarks by the teacher who presides over Die Lehrlinge are a week's worth of meditations by themselves.
"When we read and hear true poems, we feel the movement of nature's inner reason and, like its celestial embodiment, we dwell in it and hover over it at once."
Novalis' "Die Lehrlinge zu Sais" was cleverly matched with fifty illustrations by Paul Klee, for a translated edition from Archipelago Books. My imagination flared with the sweeping visions of Nature, and the way in which our relationship to Nature - conquest versus conquered by, love versus hate, industry versus poetry - twists and turns like smoke in the breeze. The concluding remarks by the teacher who presides over Die Lehrlinge are a week's worth of meditations by themselves.
"When we read and hear true poems, we feel the movement of nature's inner reason and, like its celestial embodiment, we dwell in it and hover over it at once."