A poem by Novalis

When geometric diagrams and digits

Are no longer the keys to living things,

When people who go about singing or kissing

Know keeper things than the great scholars,

When society is returned once more

To unimprisoned life, and to the universe,

And when light and darkness mate

Once more and make something entirely transparent,

And people see in poems and fairy tales

The true history of the world,

Then our entire twisted nature will turn

And run when a single secret word is spoken.