Die Poesie heilt die Wunden, die der Verstand schlägt. Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason. - Novalis
Novalis saw reason (Verstand) as a cold, dissection-like faculty that wounds the soul by reducing experience to detached analysis, while poetry — with its imagination, emotion, and symbolic power — restores wholeness and heals that estrangement.
It is often cited alongside his companion aphorisms, such as "Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home" and "To romanticize the world is to make us aware of the magic, mystery and wonder of the world."