word from nowhere

The improbable word that makes possible the whole poem.

never mine

The poem you admire because you wish you’d written it. The poem you admire because you know you never could’ve written it.

a life's work and then some

At the time of his death at 29, the poet and philosopher Novalis was working on an ‘Encyclopedia of Universal Knowledge’. So much like a poet, to think such a project possible, even had he lived a long time.