‘The world must become romanticized. That way one finds again the original meaning. Romanticizing is nothing but a qualitative potentializing….the operation is still wholly unknown. When I confer upon the commonplace a higher meaning, upon the ordinary an enigmatic appearance, I romanticize it. The operation is reserved for the higher, unknown, mystical, and infinite. This becomes logarithmized through such a couple, receiving an ordinary expression. Romantic philosophy. Lingua romana. Alternating elevation and debasement.

Novalis (Friedrich Leopold Von Hardenberg) 1772–1801.