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"The Blue Flower" Quotes
"The Blue Flower" by Penelope Fitzgerald explores the life and unfulfilled love of the German Romantic poet Novalis, focusing on his engagement to the young Sophie von Kühn.
biographical fiction | 244 pages | Published in 1997
Quotes
A man who has an idea, a truth, or an experience that he cannot express, is a man who does not yet know what he has experienced, what he knows, what he has lived through.
A word, a glance, a gesture, can be as full of meaning as a single book.
There is a kind of wisdom in simplicity.
In dreams, we are true poets, weaving together our experiences with strands of fancy.
One must not always believe what one thinks.
To love is to be two and yet one, a man and a woman who have found their heaven on earth.
We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
A soul without a high aim is like a ship without a rudder.
The beauty of the world is best seen through the eyes of a child.
Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
