"Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason." ― Novalis Topic(s): Poetry More From Novalis "We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming." "Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other." "The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist." More In Poetry "Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks."― Plutarch "I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry."― Elizabeth Edwards "Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted."― Percy Bysshe Shelley